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This temperature data comes from Environment and Climate Change Canada. The data contains projections using 30-year averages and annual averages from the most current global climate model data, CMIP6. CMIP is an international scientific collaboration under the United Nations World Climate Research Programme.
There are three emissions scenarios in this project: high-emissions (CMIP6 SSP5-8.5), medium-emissions (CMIP6 SSP2-4.5) and low-emissions (CMIP6 SSP1-2.6). The scenarios incorporate projected temperature data starting in 2015. The data is an output of 26 different models, and we use the median values in this project.
Stripe colours are based on the difference between annual average temperatures and the 30-year temperature average around the user’s birth year. To calculate generational differences, we compared the 30-year temperature average around the user’s birth year to the 30-year average around the median age when each generation is born and turns 70.
Generational birth ranges are as defined by Statistics Canada. Locations are Canada’s largest population centres, capitals and locations of CBC/Radio-Canada stations.