- MNR’s Response to the Known and Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Natural Resources in Ontario: A Progress Report and Supporting Studies
Climate Change Resources
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For more information about the effects of climate change on our natural resources, please read:
Featured Resource: Climate Change Mapping Browser
The Ministry has developed an interactive mapping tool that shows how different Ontario’s climate might be in the future as a result of increasing the amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The maps show potential temperature and precipitation changes that could result from two different scenarios based on different rates of greenhouse gas emission into the atmosphere.
The Climate Change Mapping Browser allows the user to project temperature and precipitation patterns based on the ‘A2’ and the ‘B2’ scenarios of human activity throughout the 21st century. See how your actions can affect the rate of climate change.
For each scenario of greenhouse gas emissions, you can choose from the following scenarios:
- projected future average summer temperatures and winter temperatures
- projected precipitation patterns from April to September or from October to March
- possible future climates during three different time periods throughout the 21st century
- all of Ontario or selected parts of the province.
Related Links
- News Release - MCGUINTY GOVERNMENT HELPING ONTARIANS UNDERSTAND THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE (July 19, 2007)
