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2. Climate Change 1995, Volume I, Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, July 1996. [return]

3. Bert Bolin speech [return]

4. Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom [return]

5. Walter Skinner, et.al., The State of Canada's Climate: Monitoring Variability and Change, SOE Report No. 951, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, 1995.. [return]

6. Don E. Russell, "Effects of global warming on the biology and management of the Porcupine caribou herd", in G. Wall (ed.), Impacts of Climate Change on Resource Management in the North, Dept. of Geography, Occasional Paper No. 16, University of Waterloo, 1993, pp. 9197; Janet Brotton and Geoffrey Wall, "The possible effects of climate change for the sport hunting of Bathurst caribou of the Northwest Territories", in Stewart J. Cohen (ed.), Mackenzie Basin Impact Study (MBIS), Interim Report #2, Environment Canada, November 1994, pp. 456458. [return]

7. Ed Struzik, "The Muskox of Banks Island", Above and Beyond, Summer 1995, pp. 5155. [return]

8. J.A. Kerr, "Future water levels and flows for Great Slave and Great Bear Lakes, Mackenzie River, and Mackenzie Delta", paper presented at the Final Workshop of the Mackenzie Basin Impact Study, May 5, 1996, Environment Canada, Yellowknife. [return]

9. Canadian Forest Service statistics [return]

10. CNN report, June 6, 1996 [return]

11. Werner A. Kurz and Michael J. Apps, "Retrospective assessment of carbon flows in Canadian boreal forests", in Michael J. Apps and David T. Price (eds.), Forest Ecosystems, Forest Management and the Global Carbon Cycle, NATO ASI Series, Vol. I 40, SpringerVerlag, Berlin, 1996, pp. 173182. [return]

12. Kevin Jardine, "The Carbon Bomb: Climate Change and the Fate of the Northern Boreal Forests", Greenpeace International, 1994. [return]

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14. Data from Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre, Norway. [return]

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17. Alan Judge, et.al., "Contemporary climate change in the Mackenzie Valley, N.W.T.and the impact upon permafrost" (abstract), in University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Conference on the Role of the Polar Regions in Global Change: Proceedings of a Conference Held June 1115, 1990. p. 504. [return]

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20. R.M. Bone, et.al., "Settlements in the Mackenzie Basin: now and in the future" (abstract), in Cohen 1996, p. 60. [return]

21. Environment Canada, A Matter of Degrees: A Primer on Global Warming, DSS Enl21/11993E, 1993, pp. 534. [return]

22. J.M. Aylsworth and P.A. Egginton, "Sensitivity of slopes to climate change" in Cohen 1994, pp. 278283. [return]

23. Gerald P. Livingston and Leslie A. Morrissey, "Methane emissions from Alaska arctic tundra in response to climatic change", University of Alaska Fairbanks 1990, pp. 372377. [return]

24. Steven Solomon, "Storminess and coastal erosion at Tuktoyaktuk", in Cohen 1994, pp. 286292. [return]

25. Steven Solomon, "Storminess and coastal erosion at Tuktoyaktuk", in Cohen 1994, pp. 286292. [return]

26. Scientific Design for the Common Module of the Global Ocean Observing System and the Global Climate Observing System: An Ocean Observing System for Climate, Final Report, Figure 1.B.23, Texas A&M University, (undated) and found on the Internet at http://wwwocean.tamu.edu/OOSDP/FinalRept/figure05.html [return]

27. J.F. Read and W.J. Gould, "Cooling and freshening of the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean since the 1960s", Nature 360:5557 (5 November 1992). [return]

28. J.R. Toggweiler and B. Samuels, "Is the magnitude of the deep outflow from the Atlantic Ocean actually governed by Southern Hemisphere winds?", in Martin Heimann (ed.), The Global Carbon Cycle, NATO ASI series: Series I, Global environmental change; vol 15, SpringerVerlag, Berlin, 1993, pp. 3045. [return]

29. Stefan Rahmsdorf, "Bifurcation of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to changes in the hydrological cycle", Nature 378:145149 (9 November 1995) [return]

30. Richard Monastersky, "Staggering through the ice ages", Science News 146:745 (July 30, 1994). [return]

31. John Austin, et.al., "Possibility of an Arctic ozone hole in a doubledCO2 climate", Nature 360:221225, 1992. [return]

32. "Stronger Ozone Decline Continues", World Meteorological Organization News Release No. 586, 12 March 1996.
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