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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... causing this change : anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions , or , in slightly cruder terms , things that indus- trialized human beings are pumping into the atmosphere . So that's the bad news . The next question a person usually asks ...
... causes , ” respectively . Observational Evidence of Climate Change Radiative forcing of climate The Earth is said to be in a global radiative equilibrium if the total amount of energy received from the sun , averaged over a few decades ...
... cause the most stress on adaptation strategies for climate change . Adaptation strategies aimed exclusively at dealing with a slow mean change in climate could be ineffective if they do not also account for projected changes in climate ...
... assigning a cause for the detected signal to human activities, variations in other external forcing, or a combination of both. and Storm-Related Indicators Source: ipcc, 2001. In 1996 , the. 34 What's [Going] to Happen[ing]?
... cause . Global mean surface air temperatures have increased by 0.6 ± 0.2 ° c since 1860 , although this warming has not occurred in a constant fashion . Most of the warming has occurred during two distinct periods , from 1910–1945 and ...