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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... continue to increase in the short term but eventually start to decrease. Six sample profiles are shown in Fig- ure 2.9 together with the is92a or “best guess” profile used in the second scientific assessment. None of the individual ...
... model simulations show that Europe continues to warm even in those simulations where the conveyor slows down . In those Table 2.1 Estimates of Confidence in Observed and Projected Changes 30 What's [ Going ] to Happen [ ing ] ?
... continue in the region, under all scenarios of future emissions which have been used to drive the coupled models. Most of Canada is pro- jected to have greater than average warming in the summer and winter, for both the A2 and B2 ...
... continues to rise , despite the country's 700 600 500 600 -500 CO2 Emissions -400 400 GDP 300 300 200 100 0 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 Figure 3.2 . CO2 Emissions and GDP for Canada , 1958-1995 Source : ORNL , 2001 ...
... continue to rise. At present, two sectors in Canada account for more than half of the greenhouse gases: transportation and power generation (see fig. 3.3). Indus- try accounts for an additional 15% of emissions. Any attempt to reduce ...