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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... problem wasn't just the tem- perature ; it was some complex cumulative effect at the peripheries of awareness , the touch of something weird . I've caught the same faint whiff of horror a number of times in the last few years . Two ...
... 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 assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and ...
... problem of uncertainty is the potential existence of 'unknown unknowns' whose importance only becomes apparent once they are discovered. Extensive research has been conducted over the last several years in an attempt to quantify ...
... problem is the fact that coal , which produces the highest CO2 emissions of any fossil fuel , is the major source of electricity for China ( 70 % ) and South Asia ( 60 % ) , and elec- tricity demand in these regions is rising at close ...
... problems include increased fire and pest out- breaks in our boreal forests, higher heat wave mortality in major cities, melting of large areas of permafrost, and disruptions in water supply in the Great Lakes and the Prairies. In the ...