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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... tion has blunted our trust in gestalt perception , the ability to pick up on big pictures ( or changes in big pictures ) from ' mere details ' remains part of our genetic inheritance . In terms of the analogy : so we're plodding merrily ...
... tion that otherwise might not be deemed necessary . The analogy is also useful in underscoring that the diagnosis of global warming does not necessarily mean the patient is going to die . The oper- ative word here is life - threatening ...
... tion of the purely economic costs of slowing or reversing carbon dioxide emissions. Cost-benefit analysis rests on assumptions that are contested in some quarters, but it indicates that the costs of significant reductions in greenhouse ...
... tion of 1857 and of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858. Vol. 1. Edmonton: Hurtig. Macoun, John. (1882). Manitoba and the Great North-West. Guelph: World Pub- lishing. Palliser, John. (1859). Papers Relative to ...
... tion of coal ) . These and other aerosols affect the radiation balance of the Earth by both directly scattering incoming radiation back to space and indirectly affecting the formation , lifetime , and properties of clouds . 3 2 ...