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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... period spanning 2008–2012. The third ipcc assessment was completed in 2001, and the fourth assessment will be completed in 2007. While the ipcc assessments ultimately enter the political arena, the actual writing of the assessment ...
... period and is not considered for this plot . It is emphasized that the pos- itive and negative global - mean forcings cannot be added up and viewed a priori as pro- viding offsets in terms of the complete global climate impact . Source ...
... periods : 1910–1945 and 1976–2000 ( fig . 2.4a , 2.5 ) . Very recently , proxy data from , for example , boreholes , corals , and tree rings have allowed the reconstruction of northern hemisphere temperatures back as far as 1000 ad . Of ...
... period . In the last 1,000 years , the twentieth century is the warmest century and the 1990s the warmest decade ... Periods: The Science of Climate Change 21.
... Periods: a) 1901–1999; b) 1910–1945; c) 1946–1975; d) 1976–1999 The magnitude of the trend is given by the area of the ... Period Figure 2.8. Schematic Diagram of Observed Variations: in a) Temperature;. 22 What's [Going] to Happen[ing]?