Global Climate Change: Hearings Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, on the Science and Energy Policy Implications of Global Climate Change and International Agreements Regarding Greenhouse Gas Emissions, May 6 and 12, 1992, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992 - 427 pages |
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... Northern compared to the Southern hemisphere has not occurred . Substantially greater warming at higher latitudes has not appeared . None of the changes predicted by the models actually occurred . Even if increased concentrations of ...
... Northern compared to the Southern hemisphere has not occurred . Substantially greater warming at higher latitudes has not appeared . None of the changes predicted by the models actually occurred . Even if increased concentrations of ...
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... Northern Hemisphere land air temperature during the past 130 years . to the series of individual sunspot maximum 0.2 and minimum. M UCH SCIENTIFIC EFFORT HAS been exercised in order to under- stand the effects on climate of the release ...
... Northern Hemisphere land air temperature during the past 130 years . to the series of individual sunspot maximum 0.2 and minimum. M UCH SCIENTIFIC EFFORT HAS been exercised in order to under- stand the effects on climate of the release ...
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... Northern Hemisphere temper- ature anomalies from 1861 to 1989 ( right - hand scale ) . The symbols ( * ) represent average values of the tem- perature record corresponding to in- dividual solar cycles from solar maxi- mum to solar ...
... Northern Hemisphere temper- ature anomalies from 1861 to 1989 ( right - hand scale ) . The symbols ( * ) represent average values of the tem- perature record corresponding to in- dividual solar cycles from solar maxi- mum to solar ...
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... Northern Hemisphere land air temperature differ- ence and a possibly more direct indicator of long - term solar activity , namely the solar cycle length , we were able to improve the goodness of fit relative to that obtained by Reid ...
... Northern Hemisphere land air temperature differ- ence and a possibly more direct indicator of long - term solar activity , namely the solar cycle length , we were able to improve the goodness of fit relative to that obtained by Reid ...
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... Northern than in the Southern Hemisphere ( has not occurred ) ; substantially greater warming predicted at higher latitudes ( has not appeared ) . " None of these predictions is supported by the changes in climate that have actually ...
... Northern than in the Southern Hemisphere ( has not occurred ) ; substantially greater warming predicted at higher latitudes ( has not appeared ) . " None of these predictions is supported by the changes in climate that have actually ...
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