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| Government part of essay.provincial |
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25% then 42% for waiting time and emissions
-as a component covered by the wider goals of the Kyoto accord.
- project green reduce emission
-green lane regional offfice mandate use national resources tailored for specific regional issues |
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-The planning act sets regulatory framework for how land development should take place
- 1994 environmental bill of rights registry, new initives
- statement of environmental values
-2005 green belt and places to grow
-1.8 million acres
-niagra escarpment and oakridges moraine
-places to grow act allows the government to designate any area of the province as a growth area and develop growth in a collaborative manner with the municipalities to meet environmental and economic needs
-goldenhorsehoe firstplace to grow
- centered growth rather than sprawled |
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up until places to grow and greenbelt
- free to make own zoning bylaws,
-wallace immen 2000 series on sprawl said no ones in the drivers seat
-each municipality can make own choice
-environmental bill is regarded not binding
-munipalities previously sought after growth, gets more economic base
- there is an OMB which hears citizens appeals of decisions made by muncipalities, oakridge moraine orginally hear here |
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much power ursurped by provincial government, more intergrated approach
- kinks are financing
- big pipe york-durham and pickering, issues water needed from oak ridges moraine
- more desparities, expenses in city rising, no central transport
-stakeholder view better to balance growth and sustainability |
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-hydrogen cell needs methane to be made
-Through Fission- decay of nuclear material can daughter products start decaying which releases nutrons which heat things
- through steam turbine creates 21% worlds energy and 75% in france
-produces rad waste alpha beta gamma
-Radon naturally occuring produces 100mrem
- 4 places for waste
- shale
-salt
- Volcanic Tuff Yucca mountains
-crystaline rocks canadian shield
-decaying is spontenous
-half life is bulk of daughter products to decay
- no greenhouse gas emission
- abundance of uranium
- coals maturation- lignite, anthracite, bitumnious, sub-bitumnious |
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Anthropogenic or not (greenhouse period)then
understand traditional patterns
-volcanic erruption produing arosoles
- no oxygen until photosynthesis
- appearce of oxygen led to ozone layer
-cold periods (icehouse periods) - Alpine glaciation up lift of continents in mountain belts
precambrian
- - climate has been coolder and hotter
-during creastaeous period
-sea was hundreds of feet higher
medium changes
the milankovich or orbital patters of tilt and procession cyclical
- short term changes little ice age and medieval warm 1000-1900 ad
-sun spot changes could account for these
- The hockey stick graph
- GCM general circulation models have no real relevance |
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| Some possible effects of global warming |
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shifts in climatic belts
-albedo process of global cooling caused by heavy rainfall
- increased storm activity, extra moisture caused by rain
-collapse of artic shelves and warming of ice caps leads to increase of sea level drowing many costal cities
-swarm of northern glaciers would elimate cold of Northern atlantic slowing down the gulf and making europe colder |
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