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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... range for Ontario , yes , but not completely outside it . It was proof of nothing . Still , there had been something about the character of that wind : its dryness , its persistence , the absence of clouds , the way it had come , by ...
... range of sec- ular and spiritual paradigms , each of which encapsulates a set of fundamen- tal moral values that can be used to orient our attitudes and ground individual choices . Climate change is only one of several human - induced ...
... range , for the most part guided by the spread in the published values of the forcing . A vertical line without a rectangular bar and with “ 0 ” delimiters denotes a forcing for which no central estimate can be given owing to large ...
... range has increased since 1950, although most regions show a reduction. Figure 2.7. Trend in Annual Mean Diurnal Temperature Range (°C/decade) The magnitude of the trend is given by the area of the circle and the sign of the trend is ...
... range. The hydrological cycle should also intensify, lead- ing to enhanced precipitation at mid-to-high latitudes, with more extreme events and enhanced evaporation at low latitudes. Figure 2.8 is particularly useful for comparison with ...