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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... emissions. Cost-benefit analysis rests on assumptions that are contested in some quarters, but it indicates that the costs of significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are greater than industry and government will be willing to ...
... emissions Any projection of future climate change fundamentally requires assumptions about future emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols. These in turn are determined by making assumptions about future economic and population growth ...
... emissions, and still others suggest that emissions will continue to increase in the short term but eventually start to decrease. Six sample profiles are shown in Figure 2.9 together with the is92a or “best guess” profile used in the ...
... emissions scenarios, we arrive at a range of projected 2100 warming, relative to 1990, of 1.4–5.8°c. This range, reported in the ipcc Third Assessment Report, is higher than the 1.0–3.5°c range The dark shading gives the range using all ...
... emissions (lower right panel of Figure 2.9) and hence less cooling from the resulting direct and indirect effects of the aerosols. The international media picked up on the differences between the range of ipcc 1996 and2001 projections ...