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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... assessment of the implications of climate change for Canada. Leading Canadian scien- tists, engineers, social scientists, and humanists offer an overview and assessment of climate change and its impacts on Canada from physical, social ...
... Assessment Report , a brief review of the history behind the formation of the IPCC is given before this chapter turns to climate change detection and attribution : the search for an anthropogenic ( human- induced ) warming signature ...
... assessments of the rela- tionship between CO2 and climate began to appear.2 On the international scene, it is apparent ... Assessment of the Role of Carbon Dioxide and Other Greenhouse Gases in Climate Variations and Associated Impact ...
... assessing the science , socio - economic impacts and adaptation , and mitigation aspects of climate : wgi : assesses the scientific aspects of the climate system and climate change . wgii : addresses the vulnerability of socio ...
... Assessments of Climate Change. The first, in 1990, led to the creation of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a UN Framework Convention on Climate Change by the UN General Assembly. The second assessment, in 1996, was ...