Canada may see mean temperatures increases of up to four degrees over the next 100 years. Climate is driven by global temperature, and this is why scientists predict much more severe and frequent everything. Whether the norm is rain, drought, storms or floods, they say expect more and worse. In fact, Canada is one of the CO 2 bad guys. We are a large cold country with a resource-based economy, but critics say that's no excuse for a country with a small population to be the world's ninth largest emitter of CO 2 and the second largest per capita.
Canadian households are the biggest offenders.
Just heating and lighting our houses and moving ourselves around contributes one-third of Canada's emissions. Add freight, and transportation overall accounts for just under half of this country's emissions.