The National Climate Program Act and Global Climate Change: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment and the Subcommittee on International Scientific Cooperation of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, July 22, 23, 29; September 30, 1987

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Page 455 - describe and understand the interactive physical, chemical, and biological processes that regulate the total earth system, the unique environment that it provides for life, the changes that are occurring in this system, and the manner in which they are influenced by human actions.
Page 366 - Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of Defense Department of Education Department of Energy Department of Health and Human Services Department of Housing and Urban Development...
Page 605 - To obtain a scientific understanding of the entire Earth System on a global scale by describing how its component parts and their interactions have evolved, how they function, and how they may be expected to continue to evolve on all time scales.
Page 498 - The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
Page 45 - ... due to thermal expansion of sea water in the warmer future climate. Far less certain are the contributions due to melting and calving of land ice.
Page 538 - To further the application of meteorology to aviation, shipping, water problems, agriculture and other human activities...
Page 201 - Mr. Chairman, this concludes my prepared remarks. I will be pleased to answer any questions you or other members of the Subcommittee may have.
Page 364 - NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research...
Page 207 - ... years. Thus, problems of ozone change and climate change should be considered together. It is also apparent that what has been previously thought of as the CO2-climate problem should more properly be thought of as the trace gas-chemistry-climate problem.
Page 511 - Here they give up heat to the atoosphere and descend to the abyss as new deep water. This deep water flows down the length of the Atlantic around Africa through the southern Indian Ocean and finally northward in the deep Pacific Ocean. Some salty water upwells in the northern Pacific bringing with it the salt left behind. This atmospheric water vapor and ocean salt transport system is self stabilizing. Records...

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