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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... considered to provide a negative radiative forcing ( e.g. , sulphate aerosols released in the combus- tion of coal ) . These and other aerosols affect the radiation balance of the Earth by both directly scattering incoming radiation ...
... considered the climatic effects of the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol . He showed that if all countries followed their baseline changes after 2010 ( i.e. , all countries met their Kyoto targets but did no more for the rest of this ...
... considered to be amplified over most of Canada ( see figs . 2.11 and 2.12 ) . Similarly , there is intermodel agreement that the grl and Alaskan ( ala ) regions , which include much of northern Canada and all of the Canadian Arctic ...
... considered to be amplified over Canada. Uncertainty in climate change projections There are two types of uncertainties involved in climate change projec- tions (nrc, 2003): those that are essentially random (aleatory uncertainty), and ...
... considered in the context of the relationship between poverty and environmental change. The inability to adapt to rapid or extreme changes in climate is a major challenge for human systems. Abrupt changes may also force ecological and ...