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Canada and the World Backgrounder articles from October 2005
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Canada and the World Backgrounder archives from October 2005
Politics meets science: in November 2005, a gathering in Montreal will try to set the agenda for what happens on the global warming file after the Kyoto Protocol.(KYOTO PROTOCOL-INTRODUCTION)
October 1, 2005... Hurricanes Katrina and Rita slammed into the Gulf Coast of the United States in the late summer of 2005. The shorelines of Louisiana and Texas were devastated by the two mega-storms. So unusual was the fact that two Category 5 hurricanes would...
Heating up.(KYOTO PROTOCOL--GREENHOUSE EFFECT)
October 1, 2005... In the 1995 second assessment report (SAR) the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made the widely quoted statement that "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." The phrase "balance of evidence"...
A stepping stone: the Kyoto Protocol may not hold all the answers to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions but many say it's a good first step.(KYOTO PROTOCOL--WHAT IT SAYS)
October 1, 2005... Responding to the warning of the scientific community, governments around the world negotiated the Kyoto Protocol; an amendment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an international treaty on global warming. It...
A foot in the door: even those who support the Kyoto Protocol recognize its flaws; but they say it's a move in the right direction of helping to reduce global warming.(KYOTO PROTOCOL--PROS)
October 1, 2005... Supporters say the protocol is better than nothing and really should be looked upon as a starting point for deeper cuts to greenhouse-gas emissions in the future. Some are a little more enthusiastic. Liberal MP David Anderson, who was...
Swimming against the current: some skeptics think Kyoto is a scheme to either slow growth in the world's industrial democracies or to transfer wealth to Third World countries in what they see as global socialism.(KYOTO PROTOCOL--CONS)
October 1, 2005... According to Nature Magazine (October 2003) the Kyoto Protocol will reduce the average global rise in temperature by somewhere between 0.02[degrees]C and 0.28[degrees]C by the year 2050. So, critics say we are embarking on a multi-billion...
A work in progress: Canada agreed to join the Kyoto Protocol process in December 1997; to meet its targets Ottawa promised to cut greenhouse gas emissions to six percent below 1990's level by 2012.(KYOTO PROTOCOL--CANADA)
October 1, 2005... Canada has a plan--well, several plans really, though translating them into action is another story. In any event, here's the agenda:
* October 2000: Ottawa announces its "Action Plan 2000 on Climate Change." Half a billion dollars is...
The party's over: geophysicist M. King Hubbert predicted in 1956 that world oil production would peak in 2000. According to geologist Colin Campbell, Dr. Hubbert was close; the actual peak came during the spring of 2004.(KYOTO PROTOCOL--THE FUTURE)
October 1, 2005... James Howard Kunstler has written a book that tells us how he thinks we are going to live in a world without oil. In The Long Emergency, (ISBN: 0871138883) we are informed that the world is coming to "the end of the cheap-fossil-fuel era." And,...
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October 1, 2005... "Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have increased since the mid-1700s through fossil fuel burning and changes in land use, with more than 80 percent of the increase occurring since 1900. Moreover, research indicates that increased...