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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... loss of glaciers in the Rocky Mountains: yet the climate change facing us, together with the rapid increase of the world's population and the indus- trial development of countries like China and India, presents governments and ...
... loss — yet you may go bald . Even if the diagnosis is confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt , we can at best say only what is likely to occur in any given case . And the same thing is true of global warming were we to try to say what ...
... loss from the ocean. The warming is also amplified in the winter, and to a lesser extent in the spring, over land since the snow albedo effect is greatest at this time of year (fig. 2.6). In addition, the warming trend over land since ...
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