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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... spades ? It's always been touch - and - go there . The archaeological record suggests that the region was subject to prolonged and severe drought during the Hypsithermal — the peak of the warming trend that followed 2 Introduction.
... suggesting ? No. Intuition told me it was “ too ” hot , that July afternoon in Southwestern Ontario , and it tells me now it's “ too ” dry on the farm . As with any gestalt perception , the reasons for these assertions are hard to ...
... 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 Part i take up ...
... 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 they return to one of ...
... suggest should have occurred, and also what these same models project will occur more notice- ably in the future. Projections of Climate Change with Applications to Canada Coupled atmosphere–oceangcms have evolved considerably over the ...