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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... lands, these shorelines—will not survive. That is what this book is about: the grounds for that hope, and that grief ... Land: A Prairie Passage. Toronto: Stoddart. Hind, Henry Youle. (1971). Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring ...
... Land- Atmosphere Interaction Atmosphere- Biosphere Interaction 444 ↑ Biosphere Soil - Biosphere Interaction Ice Sheet Land Surface Cryosphere : Changes in the Ocean : Rivers & Lakes Circulation , Sea Level , Biogeochemistry Sea Ice ...
... Land- Use ( Albedo ) Indirect Effect ( 1st Type ) High Med . Med . Low Very Low Very Very Very Very Low Low Low Low Level of Scientific Understanding Very Very Very Low Low Low Figure 2.3 . Global and Annual - Mean Radiative Forcing ( W ...
... land surface air and sea surface tempera- ture anomalies relative to the 1961–1990 mean : the black curve gives a decadal average ; b ) reconstructed northern hemisphere surface air temperature changes since 1000 AD ( blue ) . The black ...
... land since the snow albedo effect is greatest at this time of year (fig. 2.6). In addition, the warming trend over land since 1950, on aver- age, has been about twice as fast at night compared to the day (fig. 2.7). That is, nighttime ...