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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... important in this regard. In summary, the theory of global warming is based on elementary principles of physics—principles that have been around for more than a century: warm climates can't be maintained unless there are greenhouse ...
... important aspects of chapter 9 , “ Projections of future climate change , ” and chapter 12 , " Detection of climate change and attribution of causes , ” respectively . Observational Evidence of Climate Change Radiative forcing of ...
... important to note that the Earth system does not instantly reach radiative equilibrium once a radiative forcing is ... importance is the fact that 20 What's [ Going ] to Happen [ ing ] ?
... importance is the fact that reconstructed and instru- mental records agree remarkably over their common period . In the last 1,000 years , the twentieth century is the warmest century and the 1990s the warmest decade . The top 10 ...
... important to note that the observed changes are internally consistent with each other, as well as with physical intuition, without needing to appeal to complicated coupled atmosphere-ocean models: increasing greenhouse gases provide a ...