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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... mean you are on the pavements of the promenade ? Or perhaps the walls of the clock tower ? By no means . You could be on a highlight on some passerby's black hat . No single dab of colour is impossible anywhere ; and sometimes the ...
... mean that every cough or twinge is a symptom — though initially , it's natural to be jumpy and to see bad news everywhere . The profile of a given disease , like the profile of health , is an aggregate of common and not - so - common ...
... mean I'm going to die ? Here the news is a little better . Many projections suggest the case is not necessarily terminal . The factors are immensely complex , but there is reason to hope global warming's worst ravages might be avoided ...
... means of tackling the prob- lem from the other end. These, then, are the constraints on the possible “fixes” explored in Part ii. Increasing earth systems' abilities to absorb carbon—adding to our “carbon sinks” with forestation ...