Hard Choices: Climate Change in CanadaHarold Coward, Andrew J. Weaver Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2006 M01 1 - 282 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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... reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, is explored by Gordon Smith and David Victor. Their conclusion is that Kyoto as it stands will not do the job we need it to do, and that Canada ought therefore to recommend and implement ...
... reduce uncertainty in climate projections and quantify the socio-economic impacts of climate change. They must also develop the policies and mitigation technologies that will most effectively achieve the appropriatelevels of net ...
... reduced to 2.0°c. Similarly, the best guess sea-level rise of about 50 cm would only reduce to 48 cm. Unlike the case for glacial to interglacial changes which occur on millennial time scales (fig. 2.1), thereby allowing the Earth ...
... reduced through local feedbacks. In general, the warming is much greater overland compared to oceans as the oceans ... reduction in areal extent also exposes more of the ocean to the The magnitude of the trend is given by the area. Figure ...
... reduction in the diurnal temperature range. The hydrological cycle should also intensify, leading to enhanced precipitation ... reduce or eliminate them. Scenarios of future emissions Any projection of future climate change fundamentally ...