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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... averages that have no concrete instantiation . Climate is like the 2.3 children possessed by the average Canadian family ; weather is the actual kids ( integers only , please ) fooling around in the back- yard . A second consequence of ...
... Average " Data from thermometers 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1950 1980 2000 YEAR Departures in Temperatures ( ° C ) from the 1961-1990 Average -1.0 1000 1200 Data from thermometers ( red ) and from tree rings , corals , ice cores , and ...
... average weather and its sta- tistics. They are built on the physical principles that we believe govern the various components of the climate system. Before a climate model is deemed useful for future climate projections, it must be ...
... average model climate sen- sitivity. The light shading extends this range by calculating the spread from each model independently. Note that in all cases, warming is projected, even though in B1 emis- sions of CO2 and CH4 are assumed to ...
... Average Climates Coupled atmosphere-ocean gcms were driven by either Scenario A2 (left); or scenario B2 (right). All units are in °C. Source: ipcc, 2001. latitudes tends to warm less than the east coast because the prevailing winds are ...