CLIMATE CHANGE WILL BRING MORE EXTREME WEATHER

Al Gore may find some solace in the soon-to-be released report from Canada's Department of Natural Resources. Leaked details reported by the CBC say the report will focus on the impact that climate change will have on weather and drinking water.

Canada can expect more ice storms, torrential downpours, floods, droughts and landslides, as well as more days of extreme heat and smog.

Gordon McBean, a geography professor at the University of Western Ontario in London, says Canadians will have to adapt to more extreme weather and damaged homes and property, roads and bridges will take a beating, and coastlines in some communities will erode more rapidly than usual.

Another dust bowl for the west! Western Canada, in particular, could face short winters and long, dry summers.

Water levels in rivers in Alberta and British Columbia are already dropping significantly, as are the levels of the Great Lakes. The result could be a shortage of drinking water.

Some scientists in the United States released a study last week saying that Al Gore's charge that extreme weather was tied to climate change was incorrect. Someone may want to forward the link to this story to former Mayor Andy Wells.