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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... noted that this would leave the human- released CO2 in the atmosphere for centuries and stated, “Human beings are now carrying out a large-scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor be reproduced ...
... noted above, the formal charge of wgiis the assessment of available information on the science of climate change and on its association with human activities. More specifically, In performing its assessments wgi is concerned with ...
... noted above , the enormous computational resources needed to integrate coupled atmosphere – ocean general circulation models under the full 40 scenarios of future emissions meant that only a few illustrative scenarios could be examined ...
... noted above, the retreat of sea ice results in an additional positive feedback since the ocean is no longer insulated from the atmosphere and so can warm it from below. Fifth, the northern hemisphere warms more than the southern ...
... noted that it was too early to determine whether an irreversible change in the conveyor is likely or not over this same period . Most , but not all , coupled model projections of the twenty - first - cen- tury climate show a reduction ...