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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... measurements of at- mospheric temperatures show hardly any change in temperature in the last 12 years despite large increases of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere . By comparison , computer models based on surface temperature have ...
... measurements of at- mospheric temperatures show hardly any change in temperature in the last 12 years despite large increases of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere . By comparison , computer models based on surface temperature have ...
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... measurements of atmospheric temperature show hardly any change in temperature in the last 12 years despite large increases in greenhouse gas in the atmosphere . By comparison , computer models based on surface temperature have ...
... measurements of atmospheric temperature show hardly any change in temperature in the last 12 years despite large increases in greenhouse gas in the atmosphere . By comparison , computer models based on surface temperature have ...
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... measurements indicated that 1990 was by far the warmest year on record ; however , the satellite data show that it was only the fourth warmest in thirteen years . According to the IPCC , the warming trend revealed by satellite data is ...
... measurements indicated that 1990 was by far the warmest year on record ; however , the satellite data show that it was only the fourth warmest in thirteen years . According to the IPCC , the warming trend revealed by satellite data is ...
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... measurements of the variability of the sun's irradiance been obtained ( 2 ) , but these measurements Danish Meteorological Institute , Lyngbyvej 100 , DK . 2100 Copenhagen Ø . 698 are for a time scale shorter than a solar cycle . Reid ...
... measurements of the variability of the sun's irradiance been obtained ( 2 ) , but these measurements Danish Meteorological Institute , Lyngbyvej 100 , DK . 2100 Copenhagen Ø . 698 are for a time scale shorter than a solar cycle . Reid ...
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... measurements . Therefore , we have used the land air temperature for the Northern Hemisphere , expressed as anom ... measures of solar activity that indicate that the sunspot num- ber is probably not necessarily also a good indicator ...
... measurements . Therefore , we have used the land air temperature for the Northern Hemisphere , expressed as anom ... measures of solar activity that indicate that the sunspot num- ber is probably not necessarily also a good indicator ...
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