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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... area with a lot of beige dots , it might be on a bit of cloud showing through the branches of a tree , or a patch of sunlight reflecting off the water . If it's a very big painting — and climate is a very big painting — it may take ...
... area with a lot of beige dots , and then suddenly crosses into an area with mostly blue ones , it would be reasonable for it to specu- late that it had crossed a boundary of some sort and had entered a differ- ent region of the painting ...
... the City Limits of Saskatoon. In Out of the Past: Sites, Digs and Artifacts in the Saskatoon Area, ed. U. Linnamae and T.E.H. Jones, 65–74. Saskatoon: Saskatoon Archaeological Society. What's [ Going to ] Happen [ ing ] ? 10 Introduction.
... area of the circle and the sign of the trend is positive (warming) if the circle is red, and negative (cooling) if the circle is blue. A green circle indicates little or no trend. Source: ipcc, 2001. 1976–1999 a) Winter: December ...
... area of the circle and the sign of the trend is positive (warming) if the circle is red and negative (cooling) if the circle is blue. Data are from the period 1950–1993 and from non-urban stations only. Source: ipcc, 2001. Other ...