Hard Choices: Climate Change in CanadaWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2004 M06 24 - 273 pages Drought, floods, hurricanes, forest fires, ice storms, blackouts, dwindling fish stocks...what Canadian has not experienced one of these or more, or heard about the “greenhouse” effect, and not wondered what is happening to our climate? Yet most of us have a poor understanding of this extremely important issue, and need better, reliable scientific information. Hard Choices: Climate Change in Canada delivers some hard facts to help us make some of those hard choices. This new collection of essays by leading Canadian scientists, engineers, social scientists, and humanists offers an overview and assessment of climate change and its impacts on Canada from physical, social, technological, economic, political, and ethical / religious perspectives. Interpreting and summarizing the large and complex literatures from each of these disciplines, the book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the challenges we face in Canada. Special attention is given to Canada’s response to the Kyoto Protocol, as well as an assessment of the overall adequacy of Kyoto as a response to the global challenge of climate change. Hard Choices fills a gap in available books which provide readers with reliable information on climate change and its impacts that are specific to Canada. While written for the general reader, it is also well suited for use as an undergraduate text in environmental studies courses. |
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... Group, all at the University of Victoria. Special thanks are due to Connie Carter, for- mer administrator, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the Univer- sity of Victoria, for preparing the manuscript for publication. —Harold ...
... groups. Thousands of Years before Present Figure 2.1 . Vostok Ice Core Record Variations in atmospheric temperature derived from isotopic data and concentra- tions of atmospheric carbon dioxide ( black ) and methane ( grey ) from Vostok ...
... groups undertake their own independent research. This is not the case: they only provide an assessment of the peer reviewed literature, although they make reference to published technical reports. ipcc does not consider Web sites, or ...
... -long integrations using all scenarios because of the lack of avail- able computing time. Nevertheless, several groups around the world have run their gcms under a select number of these scenarios. 26 What's [Going] to Happen[ing]?
... groups contributing projections of future climate had incorporated interactive terrestrial and oceanic carbon cycle models into their coupled model. Sev- eral international groups have subsequently made significant advances in this ...