UK Government: 12C Degree Rise in Northern Canada By 2060 Possible

The British Government today released a map that shows the temperatures in Northern Canada rising by 12c and rising by 15c to 16c in the Northern Arctic by 2060 due to climate change.

Oil and gas companies have been rubbing their hands at all the untapped hydrocarbons that the melt will provide access to. The Northwest Passage could become a major shipping route in not too many years.

Those kind of temperature rises will be devastating on wildlife - polar bear populations are already suffering.

Michael McCarthy of The Independent points out that the predicted rises will lay the conditions for global chaos:

"The map shows rises of five degrees in Asia, seven degrees in Africa and parts of the US and eight degrees in the Amazon rainforest, all of which will have devastating consequences for some of the world’s poorest people. Rises like this are likely to lead to maize and wheat yields falling by 40 per cent across the world, and rice yields in China, India, Banglasdesh and Indonesia falling by 30 per cent – all at a time when world population is expected to grow from 6.9 billion today to more than 9 billion people."

www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/government-launches-map...