Last week, I joined the Minister of Environment at the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Dartmouth.
It’s no secret that our region is getting rocked by more and more severe weather, and I wanted to learn more about what we should expect this year and into the future.
Senior Meteorologist Dr. Chris Forgarty explained that greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from human activities causes global climate change and it’s deeply impacting us here in Nova Scotia. It looks like we will see more severe weather this year and into the future because of it.
We can all agree that here in Nova Scotia, we are feeling the brutal impacts of climate change through record severe storms and sea level rise. Just look at the past two years in Atlantic Canada—think about Hurricane Fiona—think about the floods last July—the loss of life, property, and infrastructure is immense and expensive.
Even though emissions have started going down—per capita, Canada remains one of the worst emitters of GHGs in the world. Thankfully, we can see that our climate change policy is working, but need to keep doing everything we can to join the global effort in reducing emissions to slow climate change down.
Huge thanks to Dr. Fogarty and the whole team at the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Dartmouth for all you do. We’re lucky to have you.
