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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... effect at the peripheries of awareness , the touch of something weird . I've caught the same faint whiff of horror a number of times in the last few years . Two years ago , my mother rang from the farm in Alberta . “ Remember I said I ...
... effect is the result of a surprising series of local juxtapositions . Individual dots of colour have nothing to do with what we perceive when we stand back . What science tells us is that weather is to climate what the dots are to the ...
... effect is that I've got a lot of questions . My attentiveness to weather patterns has been height- ened . I've stopped plodding merrily along . I'm scanning the horizon . I'm listening . The essays in this book lay out some of the ...
... effects are felt, so that even if we were to quit cold turkey today, we would still need to cope in the future with what we've already done. Regardless of policy decisions on mitigating cli- mate change, then, adaptation strategies are ...
... effect had been detected and that it was changing our climate. This now famous testimony occurred nearly 100 years after the link was drawn between CO2 and the earth's tempera- ture (see Christianson, 1999, for a historical review). It ...