Just last month the Insurance Bureau of Canada told Albertans to prepare for more floods and other disasters linked to global-warming. In 2010, the Bureau explicitly linked the rise in flood claims to climate change. Their research director at the time said, “municipal infrastructure has not been designed to withstand what we are experiencing, and that fact that the climate has changed.” The Federation of Canadian Municipalities urged cities to adapt to climate change: “For most of the country, the infrastructure is not built for the climate that we are now starting to see… Climate change is on our front steps. It’s in our communities. We see it. We have to adapt. We can’t wait for some global agreement and we can’t just try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions only.” Just last month, John Pomeroy, the Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change told the Calgary Herald: “[Multi-day rain events] are increasing in their intensity and frequency and we’re fast learning that our roads, our bridges and even some of our towns aren’t any match for the rainfall and the overflow that results.”
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:08:39 +0000
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