Comments on: NRCan adaptation report http://www.sindark.com/2008/03/10/nrcan-adaptation-report/ dispatches from Canada's capital Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:48:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: a sibilant intake of breath » Blog Archive » Human Health in a Changing Climate http://www.sindark.com/2008/03/10/nrcan-adaptation-report/#comment-47620 a sibilant intake of breath » Blog Archive » Human Health in a Changing Climate Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:31:54 +0000 http://www.sindark.com/2008/03/10/nrcan-adaptation-report/#comment-47620 [...] Canada has followed up the climate change impact assessment carried out by Natural Resources Canada with a report of their own: Human Health in a Changing Climate: A Canadian Assessment of [...] [...] Canada has followed up the climate change impact assessment carried out by Natural Resources Canada with a report of their own: Human Health in a Changing Climate: A Canadian Assessment of [...]

]]> By: a sibilant intake of breath » Blog Archive » American climate change impacts report http://www.sindark.com/2008/03/10/nrcan-adaptation-report/#comment-42841 a sibilant intake of breath » Blog Archive » American climate change impacts report Fri, 30 May 2008 22:19:44 +0000 http://www.sindark.com/2008/03/10/nrcan-adaptation-report/#comment-42841 [...] Because of a 2006 lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, a judge in Oakland California ordered the release of the Climate Change Science Programs (CCSP) assessment of climate change impacts in the United States. In total, the public release of the report was delayed for three years. The report - Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States - is now available online. It is not unlike the impacts report previously released by Natural Resources Canada. [...] [...] Because of a 2006 lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, a judge in Oakland California ordered the release of the Climate Change Science Programs (CCSP) assessment of climate change impacts in the United States. In total, the public release of the report was delayed for three years. The report - Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States - is now available online. It is not unlike the impacts report previously released by Natural Resources Canada. [...]

]]> By: . http://www.sindark.com/2008/03/10/nrcan-adaptation-report/#comment-35689 . Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:58:41 +0000 http://www.sindark.com/2008/03/10/nrcan-adaptation-report/#comment-35689 # A few of the report’s findingsHumans run the real risk of triggering processes in this century that will inevitably lead to "potentially cataclysmic surprises" in the next; # Canadians will experience greater economic and social impacts at the local and regional levels than national or global scale analyses predict; # Water quality and quantity will decline on a seasonal basis in every region of Canada. Prairie drought will become the norm. # Drought is responsible for 6 of the 10 most costly events in Canadian history. The national 2001-2002 drought cost about $5.8 billion and more than 41,000 jobs; # Excluding drought, short-term costs from nine extreme weather events between 1991 and 2005 totalled over $10 billion; # Climate-related impacts will create significant challenges for maintaining biodiversity in Canada’s protected areas; # We have the knowledge necessary to start undertaking adaptation activities in most situations now. # A few of the report’s findingsHumans run the real risk of triggering processes in this century that will inevitably lead to “potentially cataclysmic surprises” in the next;
# Canadians will experience greater economic and social impacts at the local and regional levels than national or global scale analyses predict;
# Water quality and quantity will decline on a seasonal basis in every region of Canada. Prairie drought will become the norm.
# Drought is responsible for 6 of the 10 most costly events in Canadian history. The national 2001-2002 drought cost about $5.8 billion and more than 41,000 jobs;
# Excluding drought, short-term costs from nine extreme weather events between 1991 and 2005 totalled over $10 billion;
# Climate-related impacts will create significant challenges for maintaining biodiversity in Canada’s protected areas;
# We have the knowledge necessary to start undertaking adaptation activities in most situations now.

]]> By: . http://www.sindark.com/2008/03/10/nrcan-adaptation-report/#comment-35523 . Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:57:23 +0000 http://www.sindark.com/2008/03/10/nrcan-adaptation-report/#comment-35523 <a href="http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hXxMDrXjPRlN0v5UnnGi_yI7xKrQ" rel="nofollow">Feds quietly release climate report despite spending $50,000 on PR</a> 1 day ago OTTAWA — The federal government paid $50,000 to a top public relations firm to choreograph the release of a major study on climate change - only to quietly post it online after it was leaked. Natural Resources Canada hired Hill and Knowlton last year to craft the unveiling of a study that took years of research and input from more than 140 experts. But the department abruptly posted the report on its website late Friday after the CBC revealed its contents the day before. Department officials had anticipated a national launch, followed by regional events across the country, said a source speaking on the condition of anonymity. "The plan was to launch it with a bit of fanfare." Feds quietly release climate report despite spending $50,000 on PR

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OTTAWA — The federal government paid $50,000 to a top public relations firm to choreograph the release of a major study on climate change - only to quietly post it online after it was leaked.

Natural Resources Canada hired Hill and Knowlton last year to craft the unveiling of a study that took years of research and input from more than 140 experts.

But the department abruptly posted the report on its website late Friday after the CBC revealed its contents the day before.

Department officials had anticipated a national launch, followed by regional events across the country, said a source speaking on the condition of anonymity.

“The plan was to launch it with a bit of fanfare.”

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