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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... Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Third Conference of Parties in 1997. The Kyoto Protocol requires Canadian green- house gas emissions to be 6% below 1990 levels in the period spanning 2008–2012. The ...
... Kyoto Protocol . He showed that if all countries followed their baseline changes after 2010 ( i.e. , all countries met their Kyoto targets but did no more for the rest of this century ) , the resulting best guess warm- ing of 2.08 ° c ...
... Kyoto Protocol represents small step towards addressing the issue of global warming, it is only a start. In fact, if we wish to stabilize atmospheric CO2 levels at 3–4 times preindustrial values, global anthropogenic emissions must be ...
... Kyoto Protocol requires countries to consider the impli- cations of their greenhouse gas emissions beyond their immediate national borders, reducing the uncertainties in the science of global warming requires scientists to transcend ...
... Kyoto Protocol: CO2 , CH4 and Climate Implications, Geophysical Research Letters 25: 2285–88. Zwiers, F.W. (2002). The 20-year Forecast. Nature 416: 690–91. This page intentionally left blank The Human Challenges of Climate The Science ...