Have You Noticed All The Scare Stories...

...about global warming are now focused on more subtle tactics while the necessity to spin headlines becomes all the more urgent:

Climate change will cost Canada $5B yearly by 2020, report shows

"Climate change will cost Canada and its people about $5 billion a year by 2020, a groundbreaking analysis for the federal government warns.

Costs will continue to climb steeply, to between $21 billion and $43 billion a year by the 2050s — depending on how much action is taken on reducing global greenhouse-gas emissions and how fast the economy and population grow, the analysis says.

“Climate change will be expensive for Canada and Canadians,” says the report from the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, issued Thursday.

“Increasing greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide will exert a growing economic impact on our own country, exacting a rising price from Canadians as climate change impacts occur here at home.”"

...versus:

Climate change could cost Canada 1% of GDP by 2050: panel

"Climate change will cause damage in Canada equivalent to around 1% of GDP in 2050 as rising temperatures kill off forests, flood low-lying areas and cause more illnesses, an official panel said on Thursday.

The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy said Canada’s Conservative government — criticized by green activists for not doing enough to fight global warming — should take measures to mitigate the effects of climate change, which most scientists blame on greenhouse gas emissions.

The north of Canada is warming up at a much faster pace than the rest of the Earth.

“Climate change presents a growing, long-term economic burden for Canada,” said the NRTEE, which the government set up in 1988 to provide advice on environmental issues.

According to the most likely scenario outlined by the panel, the damage done by global warming would be between 0.8% and 1% of GDP by 2050 and could hit almost 2.5% by 2075.

“The magnitude of costs depends upon a combination of two factors: global emissions growth and Canadian economic and population growth,” the panel said."

Of course, you don't suppose forests could expand to more northerly regions, do you? Such possibilities are never entertained by the doom and gloom crowd. Both Gaia and government can do a lot of adapting over the course of 14 to 64 years.

"The NRTEE largely dismissed the idea that global warming could help a northern country like Canada by reducing heating costs and making it easier to grow certain kinds of crops."

But, of course, nothing but doom and gloom is acceptable.