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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... result of a surprising series of local juxtapositions . Individual dots of colour have nothing to do with what we perceive when we stand back . What science tells us is that weather is to climate what the dots are to the big pic- ture ...
... result in a cure , or at least a condition that can be “ managed . ” However , spontaneous remis- sion in the absence of intervention is very rare . The sort of diagnosis we're talking about is a serious matter and in the face of it ...
... results ( “ Everybody knows you get a lot of false positives , eh ? ” ) or a downplaying of the seriousness of the consequences ( “ Hey , it's nothing — a quick trip to the chop shop and I'll be right as rain ” or “ They can cure ...
... result, van Kooten suggests we concentrate our atten- tion on attempts to adapt to climate change rather than on attempts to mitigate it. In chapter 8, Stewart Cohen and company offer another reason to concentrate on adaptation when ...
... resulting from those choices . This chapter presents a review of the science of climate change , start- ing with a discussion of the 200 - year history of the science leading up to our present - day understanding of global warming ...