Canada is Warming Faster and Could Get Three Times More Farmable Land
These warming rates have already been happening for the past forty years. Future projections where the warming trends continue and increase Canada’s farmable land from 100 million hectares to 520 million hectares by 2080. The United States has 166 million hectares of net cropland area and is ranked second in the world after India, which has 180 million hectares of croplands. However, the 520 million hectare scenario is RCP 8.5 which is unlikely to happen.
Canada has more farmland than Germany, France, UK combined and almost as much as all of them plus Japan.
The “high carbon” on the Canada Climate Atlas and is based on the RCP 8.5 emissions scenario. This scenarios is unlikely to happen. The Less Climate Change / “Low Carbon” Scenario is the RCP 4.5 scenario. Greenhouse gas emissions slow, peak mid-century, and then drop rapidly. RCP 4.5 is described by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a moderate scenario in which emissions peak around 2040 and then decline.
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A major problem with this prediction is that most of the rich fertile farmland is already in use. For example in Ontario, most of southern and eastern Ontario is good farmland but is already fully utilized. As you go north and west from there you quickly hit Canadian Shield which is not suitable for farming. Basically a mix of rock, thin soils and lakes. Canadian Shield covers a huge chunk of the country.
Isn’t the topsoil about an inch thick in most of the Canadian interior?
Careful, this almost sounds like a positive observation about climate change. Only alarmism allowed by the woke.
The definitive video on global warming below. It is only 4 minutes long.
What a dumb conclusion from this video. You only have to look at the current rate of warming to see that it’s off the charts in terms of speed and suddenness. It should also be obvious that just because the earth has changed temperature in the past it doesn’t mean it happens by magic. We know the reasons for many of these changes and guess what? This time it’s because of greenhouse gasses because 1) that’s what you would expect from an increase in GHGs and 2) no other factor fits the bill.
What a silky conclusion from this video. You only have to look at the current rate of warming to see that it’s off the charts in terms of speed and suddenness. It should also be obvious that just because the earth has changed temperature in the past it doesn’t mean it happens by magic. We know the reasons for many of these changes and guess what? This time it’s because of greenhouse gasses because 1) that’s what you would expect from an increase in GHGs and 2) no other factor fits the bill.
What a crazy conclusion from your video. You only have to look at the current rate of warming to see that it’s off the charts in terms of speed and suddenness. It should also be obvious that just because the earth has changed temperature in the past it doesn’t mean it happens by magic. We know the reasons for many of these changes and guess what? This time it’s because of greenhouse gasses because 1) that’s what you would expect from an increase in GHGs and 2) no other factor fits the bill.
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Source: Next Big Future