Countdown to Kyoto, Parts I-III: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, October 7, 9, and November 6, 1997, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998 - 2418 pages |
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... Uncertainties Arctic Ice and GCMs 407 407 Flux Adjustments in GCMs Parameterization in GCMs Moist Convective Processes in GCMs 408 409 410 Is Climate Change Underway ? Models and Regional - Scale Predictions Theoretical Limits of the ...
... Uncertainties Arctic Ice and GCMs 407 407 Flux Adjustments in GCMs Parameterization in GCMs Moist Convective Processes in GCMs 408 409 410 Is Climate Change Underway ? Models and Regional - Scale Predictions Theoretical Limits of the ...
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... uncertainties surrounding the attempt to understand the Earth's climate , the Administration's position going into the ... uncertainty . After an exhaustive review of the science in 1995 , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
... uncertainties surrounding the attempt to understand the Earth's climate , the Administration's position going into the ... uncertainty . After an exhaustive review of the science in 1995 , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
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... uncertainty , some of which include : 1 ) the radiative perturbation due to an anthropogenic doubling of carbon dioxide is small , about 1 % of the Earth's natural cooling rate ; 2 ) naturally occurring water vapor is a far more ...
... uncertainty , some of which include : 1 ) the radiative perturbation due to an anthropogenic doubling of carbon dioxide is small , about 1 % of the Earth's natural cooling rate ; 2 ) naturally occurring water vapor is a far more ...
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... uncertainty about detection of climate change , and the human impact of the climate change will be around for decades . We must act in the light of this uncertainty . The sooner we begin to attempt to mitigate the problem , the sooner ...
... uncertainty about detection of climate change , and the human impact of the climate change will be around for decades . We must act in the light of this uncertainty . The sooner we begin to attempt to mitigate the problem , the sooner ...
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... uncertainty of climate change , as you've heard already this morning , the role of clouds - essentially the cloud and aerosol feed- back . With several sites around the world , this program is acquir- ing the necessary data to reduce ...
... uncertainty of climate change , as you've heard already this morning , the role of clouds - essentially the cloud and aerosol feed- back . With several sites around the world , this program is acquir- ing the necessary data to reduce ...
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Page 558 - Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
Page 571 - the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate...
Page 589 - Affirming that responses to climate change should be coordinated with social and economic development in an integrated manner with a view to avoiding adverse impacts on the latter, taking into full account the legitimate priority needs of developing countries for the achievement of sustained economic growth and the eradication of poverty...
Page 45 - J. Antsaklis received his Diploma in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1972 and his M.Sc and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, Providence, RI in 1974 and 1977, respectively.
Page 595 - Our ability to quantify the human influence on global climate is currently limited because the expected signal is still emerging from the noise of natural variability, and because there are uncertainties in key factors. These include the magnitude and patterns of...
Page 581 - desertification' means land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities...
Page 6 - Nevertheless, the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.
Page 596 - IPCC scenario (IS92e) combined with a "high" value of climate sensitivity gives a warming of about 3.5°C. In all cases the average rate of warming would probably be greater than any seen in the last 10,000 years, but the actual annual to decadal changes would include considerable natural variability. Regional temperature changes could differ substantially from the global mean value. Because of the thermal inertia of the oceans, only 50-90% of the eventual equilibrium temperature change would have...
Page 162 - Economic studies have found that there are many potential policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for which the total benefits outweigh the total costs. For the United States in particular, sound economic analysis shows that there are policy options that would slow climate change without...
Page 581 - CO2 equilibrium conditions, a substantial fraction (a global average of one-third, varying by region from one-seventh to twothirds) of the existing forested area of the world will undergo major changes in broad vegetation types — with...