Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies and Mandates : Case Study 2--climate Models and Projections of Potential Impacts of Global Climate Change : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, November 16, 1995, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996 - 1190 pages |
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... less than adequate primarily because scientists do not fully understand the climate system . Atmospheric and oceanic models include fewer processes than coupled models where the oceans and the atmosphere meet , such as oceanic pressures ...
... less than adequate primarily because scientists do not fully understand the climate system . Atmospheric and oceanic models include fewer processes than coupled models where the oceans and the atmosphere meet , such as oceanic pressures ...
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... less homogeneous regions . Improving Models ' Estimates A number of efforts are under way to improve the accuracy of general circulation models ' estimates . Scientists are working to develop models that incorporate more of the ...
... less homogeneous regions . Improving Models ' Estimates A number of efforts are under way to improve the accuracy of general circulation models ' estimates . Scientists are working to develop models that incorporate more of the ...
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... less than 0.8 because the lower limit in the aerosol and non aerosol models cannot logically be the same . Therefore the sentence should read " ... global mean temperature of somewhat less than 0.8 ° C to 2.4 ° C by 2100. " A further ...
... less than 0.8 because the lower limit in the aerosol and non aerosol models cannot logically be the same . Therefore the sentence should read " ... global mean temperature of somewhat less than 0.8 ° C to 2.4 ° C by 2100. " A further ...
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... less than .08 ° C / decade to .24 ° / decade with sulfates and .... analogous figures without . 3.16 Adjust sea level re my earlier criticism of spm 3.19 , 3.20 . IPCC now acknowledges that GHG only models overpredict warming ( and ...
... less than .08 ° C / decade to .24 ° / decade with sulfates and .... analogous figures without . 3.16 Adjust sea level re my earlier criticism of spm 3.19 , 3.20 . IPCC now acknowledges that GHG only models overpredict warming ( and ...
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... less than 0.8 to 2.4 ° C " 4.14 Suffers from the same problem as the previous section . 4.17 . After setting up the straw arguments in the previous 4 sections , this one is used to claim that " dangerous " has been reached so that U.N. ...
... less than 0.8 to 2.4 ° C " 4.14 Suffers from the same problem as the previous section . 4.17 . After setting up the straw arguments in the previous 4 sections , this one is used to claim that " dangerous " has been reached so that U.N. ...
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