Clearing the Air on Climate Change

What do Canadians want to know about climate change? Most are not, and don’t aspire to be, climate change experts. My guess would be that most Canadians, who the polls tell us are aware of and concerned about climate change, are happy to leave the details of the science to the scientists, but would like to know both how big a problem it is for this country and what can be done about it.

There is another type of information that might be of some interest, although I suspect it would appeal mainly to a smaller, and perhaps more jaundiced, audience. This is a discussion of the sorry history of Canada’s response to climate change and, in particular, the reasons why Canada is among those industrialized countries that have done the least to address climate change.

If these are the kinds of things that are of interest to you, then Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard and Nic Rivers have written the climate change book you are looking for. Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s...