Global Climate Change: Adequacy of the National Action Plan : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, March 1, 1993, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993 - 121 pages |
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... Hemisphere . 90N 70N 50N 8 10121416 30N 10N- 10S 30S 50S 8 L 8 70S 90S + 30W Figure 1. Change in mean temperature calculated for doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide , December - February ( Northern Hemisphere Winter ) . These ...
... Hemisphere . 90N 70N 50N 8 10121416 30N 10N- 10S 30S 50S 8 L 8 70S 90S + 30W Figure 1. Change in mean temperature calculated for doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide , December - February ( Northern Hemisphere Winter ) . These ...
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... Hemisphere should warm more rapidly than the Southern Hemisphere , because land ( which predominates in our hemisphere ) heats faster than water . Has this been the case ? The top portion of Figure 2 ( Idso and Balling , 1991 ) is a ...
... Hemisphere should warm more rapidly than the Southern Hemisphere , because land ( which predominates in our hemisphere ) heats faster than water . Has this been the case ? The top portion of Figure 2 ( Idso and Balling , 1991 ) is a ...
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... hemisphere since 1935 is statistically indistinguishable from zero . The Southern Hemisphere continues to warm , although at a somewhat slower pace than it did prior to the greenhouse enhancement . It is doubtless that some of the ...
... hemisphere since 1935 is statistically indistinguishable from zero . The Southern Hemisphere continues to warm , although at a somewhat slower pace than it did prior to the greenhouse enhancement . It is doubtless that some of the ...
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... Hemisphere M 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 YEAR Figure 4a . Mean Northern Hemisphere temperature as measured by satellite ( Christy , 1993 ) . The accuracy of this record is thought to be ...
... Hemisphere M 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 YEAR Figure 4a . Mean Northern Hemisphere temperature as measured by satellite ( Christy , 1993 ) . The accuracy of this record is thought to be ...
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... Hemisphere . It should be eminently clear that our scientific understanding of the enhanced greenhouse is simply not commensurate with any expensive policy . Note that the observed temperatures are not the satellite measurements and ...
... Hemisphere . It should be eminently clear that our scientific understanding of the enhanced greenhouse is simply not commensurate with any expensive policy . Note that the observed temperatures are not the satellite measurements and ...
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Page 4 - Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.
Page 66 - Protocol for the period referred to in subparagraph (a), with the aim of returning individually or jointly to their 1990 levels these anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol.
Page 54 - Promote and cooperate in the development, application and diffusion, including transfer, of technologies, practices and processes that control, reduce or prevent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol in all relevant sectors, including the energy, transport, industry, agriculture, forestry and waste management sectors...
Page 66 - Article 12, detailed information on its policies and measures referred to in subparagraph (a) above, as well as on its resulting projected anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol for the period referred to in subparagraph (a), with the aim of returning individually or jointly to their 1990 levels these anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases...
Page 66 - Parties' starting points and approaches, economic structures and resource bases, the need to maintain strong and sustainable economic growth, available technologies and other individual circumstances, as well as the need for equitable and appropriate contributions by each of these Parties to the global effort regarding that objective.
Page 44 - I shall incorporate in its annual inventory of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, submitted in accordance with the relevant decisions of the Conference of the Parties...
Page 42 - Previously I was an Environmental Scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, where I was the lead author of the Report to Congress Policy Options for Stabilizing Global Climate.
Page 5 - Convention, recognizing that the return by the end of the present decade to earlier levels of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol...
Page 42 - NRDC is a non-profit environmental protection organization, founded in 1970 and supported by 170,000 members. NRDC's Energy Program has more than ten years of experience in promoting energy efficiency and least-cost energy planning. In 1988 NRDC launched its Atmosphere Protection Initiative (API) to provide a coordinated response to the related threats to the integrity of the earth's atmosphere-global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, and urban smog. This effort involves more than a dozen NRDC...
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