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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... countries like China and India, presents governments and individuals with hard choices now and in the future. Jan Zwicky, a poet and philosopher, introduces us to the issues by telling about her experiences growing up on an Alberta farm ...
... countries followed their baseline changes after 2010 (i.e., all countries met their Kyoto targets but did no more for the rest of this century), the resulting best guess warming of 2.08°c by 2100 would only be reduced to 2.0°c ...
... countries to consider the implications of their greenhouse gas emissions beyond their immediate national borders, reducing the uncertainties in the science of global warming requires scientists to transcend traditional disciplinary ...
... countries have been largely responsible for the increase in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2). Since 1950, five countries (US, Russia, Germany, Japan, and the UK) account for well over 50% of the total CO2 emissions ...
... Countries Cumulative CO2 Emissions, % of Total Emissions Country 1950–1995 (1000 tonnes) (since 1950) United States 180,245,575 27.31 Russia 66,694,682 10.11 China 54,030,802 8.19 Germany 41,784,828 6.33 Japan 29,736,951 4.51 United ...