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Building an environmentally sustainable future for Saskatchewan

4 Mar 2015

Wheat and maize over the period 1992-2001.15 The collapse of yields are now in decline in many regions of the Western Antarctica Ice Sheet has begun.16 the world and in the global aggregate.7 • The pace of global sea level rise has almost • As ocean waters warm, there has been a rise in doubled. [...] So widespread is environmental damage in the Caribbean, that the vast majority of coral reefs in that part of the world are on the verge of collapse. [...] An estimate by the people were displaced.26 The hardship of University of California has put the economic Typhoon Haiyan added to major human cost of the drought to the state of California impacts from other typhoons that have hit in 2014 at $2.2 billion along with the loss of the Philipp ines in recent years. [...] For instance, approximately 17,000 seasonal and part time in December 2012 Typhoon Bopha was the jobs.31 The extent and depth of the drought most powerful typhoon in the history of the by the end of November 2014 is illustrated on southern Philippines. [...] The Observed Changes in the Concentration of CO2 in Seawater and the Corresponding Change in the pH of Seawater The chart below shows the observed changes in the concent ration of carbon dioxide in seawater, and in ocean acidity (pH).
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Authors

Prebble, Peter, Hidlebaugh, Murray, Wardell, William, Henry, David

ISBN
9781771251853
Pages
60
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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