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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... projections suggest the case is not necessarily terminal . The factors are immensely complex , but there is reason to hope global warming's worst ravages might be avoided if timely treatment is undertaken . The remaining chapters in ...
... projections and quantify the socio - economic impacts of climate change . They must also develop the policies and mitigation technologies that will most effectively achieve the appropriate levels of net greenhouse gas emis- sions and ...
... projection consistent with the ipcc's 1996 “best guess” estimate of 2°c warming by 2100 (where atmos- pheric CO2 is projected to double, relative to preindustrial levels, by year 2070) (ipcc, 1996). By the early 1980s, the issue of ...
... climate change including feedbacks from climate impacts; progress in the model- ling and projection of global and regional climate and sea level change ; observations of climate , including past climates , The Science of Climate Change 17.
... Projections of future climate change , ” and chapter 12 , " Detection of climate change and attribution of causes , ” respectively . Observational Evidence of Climate Change Radiative forcing of climate The Earth is said to be in a ...