Global warming challenge
- Environment Canada, Downsview, Ontario (Canada)
Global warming will necessitate significant adjustments in Canadian society and its economy. In 1979, the Canadian federal government created its Canadian Climate Program (CCP) in collaboration with other agencies, institutions, and individuals. It sought to coordinate national efforts to understand global and regional climate, and to promote better use of the emerging knowledge. Much of the CCP-coordinated research into sources and sinks of greenhouse gases interfaces with other national and international programs. Other researchers have become involved in the Northern Wetlands Study, a cooperative United States-Canada initiative to understand the role of huge northern bogs and muskegs in the carbon cycle. Because of the need to understand how the whole, linked climate system works, climate modeling emerged as a key focus of current research. 35 refs., 4 figs.
- OSTI ID:
- 6710038
- Journal Information:
- Environmental Science and Technology; (United States), Vol. 28:12; ISSN 0013-936X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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