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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... response to the Kyoto Pro- tocol and to an assessment of the overall adequacy of Kyoto as a response to the global challenge of climate change. Although humans have always had to cope with the extremes of weather and variations in ...
... response to the climate change challenges. The chapters of Part ii focus on terrestrial carbon sinks, technological possibilities, economic responses, regional adaptations, and legal constraints and opportunities. Part iii examines the ...
... responses to global climate change from the point of view of our individ- ual ethical orientation to the earth as a whole . He discusses a range of sec- ular and spiritual paradigms , each of which encapsulates a set of fundamen- tal ...
... response to Hansen's being called before the US Senate Committee on Energy and Nat- ural resources to testify on 23 June 1988. At that time, he argued that he was 99% confident that the greenhouse effect had been detected and that it ...
... response to variations in external forcing (e.g., solar changes, volcanic emissions, greenhouse gases). As such, the detection of climate change involves looking, in a statistically significant sense, for the emergence of a signal above ...