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NCE UPDATE August 6th 2008 Article Headlines |
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| 1 | Human Health in a Changing Climate: A Canadian Assessment of Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Capacity.Health Canada is the Canadian Federal department responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health, while respecting individual choices and circumstances. Health Canada is working with researchers and decision-makers across the country to better understand how a changing climate will affect human health and to determine the best ways to prepare for these changes. The following report has now been released: Human Health in a Changing Climate: A Canadian Assessment of Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Capacity. The Assessment Report is currently in print production. Due to the size of the report (484 pages), the Department is making it available by request. To receive low-resolution PDFs (8 megabytes) of the report via email, please contact ccadaptation@hc-sc.gc.ca. If you would like to receive an interactive CD of the report (to be available on August 22, 2008), please contact Health Canada's Publications. |
| 2 | Adapting to Climate Change: Canada's First National Engineering Vulnerability Assessment of Pubilc InfrastructureTo meet the climate change challenge, Engineers Canada and its partners have established the Public Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerability Committee . Co-funded by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and Engineers Canada, the Vulnerability Committee is a major Canadian initiative involving all three levels of government and non-governmental organizations. It is looking broadly and systematically at infrastructure vulnerability to climate change from an engineering perspective. The Committee's work has resulted in the First National Engineering Vulnerability Assessment. |
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1 Frozen Northwest Passage expected to open up For only the second time in recorded history, storied Arctic channel likely to be ice-free 'in the next few weeks' Even though this summer's ice melt hasn't approached last year's record conditions, the once-frozen Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic is expected to open again soon, for only the second time in recorded history. Read more at www.theglobeandmail.com |
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2 'Land that never melts' is melting: Erosion probed in Nunavut park CBC News Survey finds links between hamlet flooding and national park damage. Experts working with Parks Canada say flooding and erosion at Nunavut's Auyuittuq National Park are related to a flood that hit the nearby hamlet of Pangnirtung in June. Read more at www.cbc.ca |
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3 Untouched forests store 3 times more carbon: study By Michael Perry SYDNEY (Reuters) - Untouched natural forests store three times more carbon dioxide than previously estimated and 60 percent more than plantation forests, said a new Australian study of "green carbon" and its role in climate change. Read more at www.reuters.com |
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4 Alaska sues over listing of polar bear as threatened The State of Alaska sued Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on Monday, seeking to reverse his decision to list polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Read more at www.adn.com |
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By Jeff Tollefson Role-play negotiations test the outcomes of global warming. More than 40 negotiators from Asia, Europe and the United States converged on Washington DC last week for what was billed as the first major war game involving global warming. Read more at www.nature.com |
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6 Climate Change Science Program Issues Report On Climate Models The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) has released a new report "Climate Models: An Assessment of Strengths and Limitations," the 10th in a series of 21 Synthesis and Assessment Products (SAPs) managed by U.S. federal agencies. Read more at www.sciencedaily.com |
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The next update from the Northern Climate ExChange will be sent out Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 |
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