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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... allowing the Earth system time to equilibrate with changes in the radiative forcing , the current rate of change in ... allowed the reconstruction of northern hemisphere temperatures back as far as 1000 ad . Of particular importance is ...
... allowing the warming of the atmosphere through heat. Figure2.6. Seasonal Mean Temperature Trends (°C/decade) for the Period Figure 2.8. Schematic Diagram of Observed Variations: in a) Temperature;. 22 What's [Going] to Happen[ing]?
... allowing the warming of the atmosphere through heat loss from the ocean. The warming is also amplified in the winter, and to a lesser extent in the spring, over land since the snow albedo effect is greatest at this time of year (fig ...
... allow the terrestrial vegetation to respond to a changing climate. Climate models are not used to predict weather but rather the slow mean change of average weather and its sta- tistics. They are built on the physical principles that we ...
... allow projections of regional changes in climate. Projections of future temperature change from simple models As an initial illustration of the projected global mean surface temperature change over the twenty-first century, we provide ...