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Climate mitigation doesn’t help today’s victims of bad weather

When politicians like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and B.C. Premier John Horgan link natural disasters such as massive flooding to addressing climate change, it’s important to understand they are not talking about preventing these disasters for the foreseeable future.

The climate we have now will be the climate we have for decades to come, even if we were miraculously able to stop emitting all industrial greenhouse gases today, which would be impossible to do.

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