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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... estimate of 2°c warming by 2100 (where atmos- pheric CO2 is projected to double, relative to preindustrial levels, by year 2070) (ipcc, 1996). By the early 1980s, the issue of climate change began to move from the scientific to policy ...
... estimate value , while its absence denotes that no best estimate is possible . The vertical line about the rectangular bar with “ ” delimiters indicates an estimate of the uncertainty range , for the most part guided by the spread in ...
... estimates of first-order quantities like global sea-level rise and surface air temperature changes over the next century. These simple models, how- ever, do not allow projections of regional changes in climate. Projections of future ...
... all coupled 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 ] ?
... Estimates of Confidence in Observed and Projected Changes in Extreme Weather and Climate Events Confidence in Observed Changes ( latter half of the 20th century ) Likely Very Likely Very Likely Likely , over many areas Likely , over ...