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NCE UPDATE August 13th 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. |
| 3 | Canada’s Offset System for Greenhouse Gases: Guide for Protocol Developers releasedThe guide provides detailed information on how to prepare and complete an Offset System Quantification Protocol. This protocol describes the approach to identify and measure greenhouse gas reductions and eligible projects under Canada's Offset System. |
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1 Mother Nature to blame for Dempster Highway's bumps: Yukon, N.W.T. Highway officials in the Yukon and Northwest Territories say heavy rain, not neglect, is to blame for the deep potholes and washouts on the Dempster Highway this summer. Read more at www.cbc.ca |
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2 Climate Change Equals Stronger Rains By David Biello Tracking El Niño with satellites reveals that a warming world means not only heavier downpours--but drier deserts As the globe continues to warm, the rainiest parts of the world are very likely to get wetter, according to a new study in Science. Desert dwellers, however, are likely to see what little rain they receive dry up, as the rain becomes even more concentrated in high-precipitation areas. Read more at www.sciam.com |
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3 Greenland glacier ice floods Frobisher Bay By Jane George Sea ice retreat heavy, but not record-breaking this year When you saw all those chunks of ice floating around in Frobisher Bay last week, you might have thought that Arctic sea ice is thriving and in no danger of melting away. If so, you would have been wrong, says Mark Serreze, an environmental scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Boulder, Colorado. Read more at www.nunatsiaq.com |
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4 Saskatchewan on high alert for pine beetle EDMONTON — From his office at the fringes of the boreal forest in northern Saskatchewan, Rory McIntosh is helping lead the Prairie province's charge to keep out millions of unwanted guests from the west. Read more at www.globeandmail.com |
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5 Scorching summer days to sizzle more by 2100: study By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - Dangerously hot days are set to become more scorching by 2100 because of climate change with the U.S. Midwest or the Mediterranean region sizzling well above 40 degrees Celsius (104F), Dutch scientists said on Wednesday. Read more at www.reuters.com |
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6 Canadian Infrastructure at risk from climate change, engineering panel warns Climate change is making Canadian roads, water supplies, sewer systems and government buildings more vulnerable to multibillion-dollar failures that place human health and safety at risk, warns a new national engineering assessment uncovered by the Vancouver Sun. Read more at www.canada.com |
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The next update from the Northern Climate ExChange will be sent out Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 |
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