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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... ment is the mark of our mortality . Is - ness is , always ; but what is , this , is here only now . The love we feel for concrete particulars — a stand of birch , a stretch of river , no less than other human beings — is as biologically ...
... ment Programme as a means to assess the potential problem of global cli- mate change. It is a UN organization governed by UN regulations with a mandate most recently reaffirmed in Vienna in October 1998: The role of the ipcc is to ...
... ment of trends and anomalies ; gaps and uncertainties in current knowledge . ( ipcc — wgi , n.d ) In what follows , I will draw heavily from the assessment that arose from this ipcc wgi process . In particular , I will focus on the key ...
... ment . The global annual average warming of the models used spans 1.2-4.5 ° C for A2 and 0.9–3.4 ° C for B2 , and therefore a regional 40 % amplification represents warming ranges of 1.7-6.3 ° C for A2 and 1.3-4.7 ° C for B2 . Source ...
... ment with an average change between J5 and 5% (no change), agreement on decrease with an average change between J5 and J20% (decrease), agreement on decrease with an average change of less than J20% (large decrease), or disagreement ...