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March
2000 Newsletter
Climate
Change in Southern Ontario
Two
members of the Atmospheric Services Division of Environment
Canada will address a free public forum on Thursday, March
16 in the Ewart Angus Centre of McMaster University Medical
Centre at 7:30 pm.
Heather
Auld and Don MacIvor will report on on-going research by
Environment Canada on changes predicted and occurring in
southern Ontario as a part of global climate change.
The
meeting is one of a series presented by the Western Lake
Ontario Environmental Coalition. It is co-sponsored by McMaster
OPIRG and Green Venture.
It
will also include reports from the delegates who represented
Hamilton area environmentalists in Ottawa and Washington
in the culmination of a process initiated at last summer's
Environmental Summit at Lakeland Community Centre.
Environment
Canada reports that 1999 was the third warmest year in the
last half century. The only year in the nineties with below
normal temperatures was 1992.
Canada
has now had ten consecutive seasons with above normal temperatures.
Consistent with global warming, the warmest decade this
century was the 1990s, followed by the 1980s, and the 1940s.
The coolest was the 1910s followed by the 1900s and the
1920s.
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