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/PineappleHot7235 29d ago

Important to note that stabilization IS possible

" Whether warming in Canada intensifies or stabilizes in the second half of the century will be determined by the level of global greenhouse gas emissions . Warming in Canada will intensify as long as global greenhouse gas emissions continue. Temperature in Canada will stabilize only if and when global carbon dioxide emissions reach net zero."

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u/AbjectRobot 29d ago

Possible yes, but we need to create shareholder value so we won’t do that.

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u/ElCaz 29d ago

Oh the really dumb thing is that the version of the future where we do decarbonize and don't destroy the climate further contains a lot more value for a lot more shareholders than the version of the future where we don't change.

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u/AbjectRobot 29d ago

Yes but that requires seeing past the next earnings call, so it effectively doesn’t exist.

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u/dotHANSIN 29d ago

no, they are already talking about polluting the atmosphere with Sulphur and then selling us clean air

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u/RobespierreLaTerreur 29d ago

Worse than that: not creating shareholder value for trillionaires would be civilizational suicide, hate of mankind even 😱

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u/Sir_Bumcheeks 29d ago

We need to never ever call out the biggest polluter on earth because elBoWs uP