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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... century. In a seminal paper, Revelle and Suess (1957) argued that the oceans could not absorb the human emissions of ... centuries and stated, “Human beings are now carrying out a large-scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could ...
... century: warm climates can't be maintained unless there are greenhouse gases to block outgoing radiation; cold ... centuries of science. National and international assessments have been conducted on the topic since the early 1980s. Most ...
... century ) , the resulting best guess warm- ing of 2.08 ° c by 2100 would only be reduced to 2.0 ° c . Similarly , the best guess sea - level rise of about 50 cm would only reduce to 48 cm . Unlike the case for glacial to interglacial ...
... century is the warmest century and the 1990s the warmest decade . The top 10 warmest years in descending order are 1998 , 2003 , 2002 , 2001 , 1997 , 1995 , 1990 , 1999 , 2000 , and 1991. A recent us National Academy of Sciences report ...
... century, so we refer the reader to Figure 2.8. This figure captures the essence of most of the major changes observed in the twentieth century. It is important to note that the observed changes are internally consistent with each other ...