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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... sources for the goods and services we want are indeed avail- able —but not as handily, or immediately, or as free of nasty consequences as we might wish. In chapter 7, G. Cornelis van Kooten takes up the ques- tion of the purely ...
... Source : ipcc , 2001 . to policy , although they may need to deal objectively with scientific , technical and socio - economic factors relevant to the application of particular policies . ( ipcc , 1998 ) To address this mandate , the ...
... Land Surface : Orography , Land Use , Vegetation , Ecosystems Figure 2.2 . Schematic representation of the climate system Source : IPCC , 2001 . Carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) , methane ( CH4 ). 18 What's [ Going ] to Happen [ ing ] ?
... added up and viewed a priori as pro- viding offsets in terms of the complete global climate impact . Source : ipcc , 2001 . Of course , there are significant differences in the atmospheric The Science of Climate Change 19.
... Source : IPCC , 2001 . A common misconception is that global warming implies warming everywhere by about the same amount . This is not the case and there are , in fact , regions where the earth has cooled over the twentieth century ...