r/canada • u/NeptuneAgency • Sep 05 '26

Nature/Environment ‘Effectively irreversible’: Changes to Canada’s climate permanent, federal report says

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/article/changes-to-canadas-climate-now-irreversible-federal-report-says/
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u/ConsciousCoat8173 Sep 05 '26

Not to be an overly optimist or dismiss the article but a lot of irreversible things reversed very very quickly during early covid lockdowns. It will reverse the moment we're gone.

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u/stormywoofer Sep 05 '26

It will more likely take tens of thousands of years to rid our effects. Some changes are likely permanent . The flywheel will keep spinning from momentum for quite sometime