Jim Mattison outlines British Columbia's policy position
There are two responses to climate change: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation is alleviating the effects of climate change through reducing greenhouse gases. Adaptation is responding to the changes that will inevitably occur. If migation is about CARBON, then adaptation is about WATER.
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British Columbia Professional Organizations Step Up
Three organizations have been working together to provide leadership on the Climate Change issue. The result was two complementary symposia held in late April 2008. At the first, titled "Changing Climate, Uncertain Future and Evolving Practices", Eric Bonham previewed the second symposium: "Climate Change is Coming...What Now?"
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Keynote address by Bob Sandford at the 2008 BCWWA Annual Conference
More and more thoughtful people are concerned that climate change, in combination with a number of contributing environmental circumstances, is poised to create a perfect storm of economic, social and political consequeces.
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Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
Here at last is a book that connects the dots in a lively way between the headlines, the climate science and the forecast for tomorrow and the day after. Dry Springs challenges environmentalist dogma, explaining why today’s leading campaigners for water pose a danger to its future supply.
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Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
Atlanta’s drought, California’s fires, Mexico’s flood, Canada’s weird winters year after year… this book connects the dots in a lively way between the headlines, the climate science and the forecast for tomorrow and the day after. Dry Spring spells out the weather forecast for North America and the urgent reasons to begin preparing for the storm just over the horizon.
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