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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... greater than industry and government will be willing to pay. As a result, van Kooten suggests we concentrate our atten- tion on attempts to adapt to climate change rather than on attempts to mitigate it. In chapter 8, Stewart Cohen and ...
... greater over land compared to oceans as the oceans have a higher heat capacity and can sequester heat to great depths ( see , for example fig . 2.5d ) . Warming is also generally greater at high latitudes than at low latitudes , due to ...
... though in B1 emis- sions of CO2 and CH4 are assumed to drop substantially below 1990 levels (fig. 2.9). Source: ipcc, 2001. reported in the Second Assessment Report simply because a greater. The Science of Climate Change 27.
... greater range of scenarios is now being used . That is , in the 1996 report , only 6 scenarios were used , whereas now 40 scenarios are used . Generally , the newer sce- narios yield lower sulphur dioxide emissions ( lower right panel ...
... greater than average warming in the summer and much greater than aver- age warming in the winter months are projected . The 1.4–5.8 ° c globally averaged warming projected by 2100 should be considered to be amplified over most of Canada ...