ENVIRONMENT CANADA & CBC IN LOCK STEP

    Here's what climate change could look like in Canada.
   'This is real on-the-ground stuff that is costing us right now,' says one expert
   Climate change is here, experts say, and Canada can expect to suffer the consequences.
   The effects of a warming planet are going to be felt from coast to coast to coast. And, if we stick to a "business-as-usual" scenario — no change to our emissions — it's going to happen a lot sooner than scientists initially thought, according to a recently released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

  "People say, well gee, the world's warmed up by 1 C in the last 135 years, but there are parts of Canada that have warmed in some seasons by four, four-and-half degrees in a 70-year period," Environment Canada's senior climatologist, David Phillips says. "So twice as much in half the time."