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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... 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 features — an “ ideal ” case that is rarely , if ever , instantiated ...
... signature above a background of natural variability . A summary is given in section 7 and concluding remarks offered in section 8 . History of the Science of Global Warming A common misconception 13 2 The Science of Climate Change.
... natural systems to climate change , negative and positive consequences of climate change , and options for adapting to it . wgiii : assesses options for limiting greenhouse gas emissions and other- wise mitigating climate change . -0.5 ...
... natural removal mechanisms . Tropospheric aerosols , for example , stay in the atmosphere only a few days because they are effectively scavenged by pre- cipitation . Stratospheric aerosols , such as those released during volcanic ...
... natural, internal processes as well as in response to variations in external forcing (e.g., solar changes, volcanic emissions, greenhouse gases). As such, the detection of climate change involves looking, in a statistically significant ...