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Originally Posted by YOWetal
There is no credible forecasts that call of any such thing. It's not a crisis and not by a long shot. Fires are a transitory issue and flooding is overblown massively. Somewhere like Bangladesh and low lying islands a possible exception. Certainly a complete not issue even to 2100 in Canada.
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Well, coastal flooding is a bit of a worry along portions of coastal Canada, and, in particular, the Isthmus of Chignecto is at risk of serious inundation during any major storm event that coincides with an astronomic high tide.
A few years back (2015), we had such an event and, the photo below shows how near of a thing it was.
This is the VIA Ocean crossing the isthmus during the event. The train track sits on a substantial embankment which also serves as a dyke protecting the expansive Tantramar Marsh. The ocean water here is within about a foot of overtopping the dyke. If the dyke catastrophically failed, the subsequent flood would take out the adjacent Trans Canada Highway as well, since the highway is lower than the railway embankment.
A critical failure here would take out the only rail line serving the port of Halifax, and, effectively the only road serving both Nova Scotia and Newfoundland (you don't have the cross this section to get to PEI).
Maritimers (at least) are concerned about sea level rise, Unfortunately JT and the Liberal Gang in Ottawa seem to feel that rectifying the situation is more of a provincial responsibility than a federal one, and are dragging their collective feet over if and how much federal money should go into this billion dollar remediation program. The Libbies on the other hand have no trouble throwing multiple billions of other taxpayer dollars at a panoply of questionable social programs.
I guess Nova Scotians and Newfoundlanders can just go pound sand. The Liberal axis rotates around central Toronto and west end Montreal.