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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... atmosphere . So that's the bad news . The next question a person usually asks once they're over the initial shock is Does this mean I'm going to die ? Here the news is a little better . Many projections suggest the case is not ...
... atmosphere, and when their effects are felt, so that even if we were to quit cold turkey today, we would still need to cope in the future with what we've already done. Regardless of policy decisions on mitigating cli- mate change, then ...
... atmosphere blocks outgoing radi- ation from the Earth and reradiates a portion of it back, thereby warming the planet (Fourier, 1824). Swedish Nobel laureate Svante Arrhenius drew upon Fourier's work, as well as that of American ...
... atmosphere (whose relative humidity is fixed) by about 2°c.” This early work yielded a projection consistent with the ipcc's 1996 “best guess” estimate of 2°c warming by 2100 (where atmos- pheric CO2 is projected to double, relative to ...
... atmospheric temperature derived from isotopic data and concentra- tions of atmospheric carbon dioxide ( black ) and methane ( grey ) from Vostok , Antarc- tica ice core records . Notice that the current level of atmospheric CO2 ( 368 ...