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Climate is still changing while Canada courts the UN
By Susan Riley June 15, 2020
Canada's record on reducing carbon emissions doesn't match Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's rhetoric.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured at Régimbal Awards and Promotions in Ottawa to highlight how businesses are benefitting from the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy on June 11, 2020, has led a years-long campaign for Canada to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
CHEALSEA, QUE.—The headline was so shocking, it looked at first like fake news. Temperatures reached 30 C inside the Arctic Circle last week, in a place called Nizhnyaya Pesha in Siberia. Sadly, the story is too true, a dramatic marker in an abnormally warm winter in northern Russia and the continuation of a long-standing trend towards a warming Arctic. Another warning to the world.
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