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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... greenhouse gas emissions , or , in slightly cruder terms , things that indus- trialized human beings are pumping into the atmosphere . So that's the bad news . The next question a person usually asks once they're over the initial shock ...
... 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 ...
... greenhouse gas emis- sions and develop the adaptation strategies that will respond to the conse- quences resulting from those choices . This chapter presents a review of the science of climate change , start- ing with a discussion of ...
... fuel burning , is about the same as the increase from the depths of the last ice age ( 21,000 years ago ) to 1750 ... greenhouse gas emissions and other- wise mitigating climate change . -0.5 -1.0 1850 1900 1950 2000 YEAR Figure 2.16 ...
... green- house gas emissions to be 6% below 1990 levels in the period spanning 2008–2012. The third ipcc assessment was completed in 2001, and the fourth assessment will be completed in 2007. While the ipcc assessments ultimately enter ...