CLIMATE CHANGE

How does it affect us?

Average temperatures in Ontario could rise by as much as 8°C.  In addition to less snow and more droughts, Ontario can expect:

• More extremely hot days (above 35°C), increasing the risk of heat stress-related illness among the old, the young and those with chronic lung diseases such as asthma.
• Less snow but more freezing rain – a threat to transmission lines, road and airline safety.
• Changes in wildlife habitats and crop yields, requiring more irrigation and increasing the risk of warm climate diseases such as Lyme and West Nile diseases and malaria.
• A drop in Great Lakes water levels by as much as one metre by 2050, affecting shipping, fisheries, water quality, water intake systems s in our cities and shoreline property.