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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... weather and variations in climate, the advent of modern technology has made the modern challenge of climate change different from the past. Today, our technological and economic strategies give us increased ability to adapt to extreme ...
... weather , to a life like my own . Before the move to the Maritimes , I'd spent several years in southwestern Ontario , a region renowned for its muggy summer heat and slow- witted thunderstorms . One July afternoon in 1988 , I was ...
... weather was the wet stuff that suggested to John Macoun in 1879 that European - style agricultural settlement could be sustained there , not the dry stuff that's since made it difficult ( Herriot , 2000 , pp . 154–55 ) . So , yes ...
... weather is not immediate , it's there . Just as the ants never experience the big picture , we never directly per- ceive climate ; but our experience of weather , especially over the long term and in connection with other things like ...
... weather but rather the slow mean change of average weather and its sta- tistics. They are built on the physical principles that we believe govern the various components of the climate system. Before a climate model is deemed useful for ...