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" Hemisphere indicate that the increase in temperature in the 20th century is likely to have been the largest of any century during the past 1000 years. It is also likely that, in the Northern Hemisphere, the 1990s was the warmest decade and 1998 the warmest... "
Climate Change: The State of the Science : Hearing Before the Committee on ... - Page 55
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science - 2001 - 163 pages
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S. 1008, the Climate Change Strategy and Technology Innovation Act of 2001 ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs - 2002 - 234 pages
...over the 20th Century by 0.4 to 0.8° C (0.7 to 1.4°F). This occurred both over land and the oceans. The average temperature increase in the Northern Hemisphere...rings, corals, ice cores, and historical records. The 1990s are likely to have been the warmest decade and 1 998 the warmest year of the past 1 000 years....
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S. 1008, the Climate Change Strategy and Technology Innovation Act of 2001 ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs - 2002 - 226 pages
...the 20th Century by 0.4 to 0.8 ° C (0.7 to 1 .4°F). This occurred both over land and the oceans. The average temperature increase in the Northern Hemisphere...have been the largest of any century during the past 1 ,000 years, based on "proxy" data (and their uncertainties) from tree rings, corals, ice cores, and...
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Clean Power Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Clean Air ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, and Climate Change - 2002 - 796 pages
...and 1998 the warmest year in the instrumental record, since 1861." "[T]he increase in temperature in the 20th Century is likely to have been the largest of any century during the past 1,000 years. It is also likely that, in the Northern Hemisphere, the 1990's was the warmest decade and 1998 the...
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A Textbook in Environmental Science

V. Subramanian - 2002 - 258 pages
...New analyses of proxy data for the Northern Hemisphere indicate that the increase in temperature in the 20th century is likely to have been the largest of any century during the past 1000 years. It is also likely that, in the Northern Hemisphere, the 1990s was the warmest decade and...
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The World's Water 2002-2003: The Biennial Report On Freshwater Resources

Peter H. Gleick, William C.G. Burns, Elizabeth L. Chalecki, Michael Cohen, Katherine Kao Cushing, Amar S. Mann, Rachel Reyes, Gary H. Wolff, Arlene K. Wong - 2002 - 362 pages
...least 1400 AD, "notes the IPCC (1995). In the Northern Hemisphere, "the increase in temperature in the 20th century is likely to have been the largest of any century during the past 1000 years" (IPCC 2001c). Warming has accelerated in the last 25 years, more than doubling that of...
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A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change

William H. Calvin - 2003 - 350 pages
...warmest year in the instrumental record, since 1861 . . . the increase in temperature in the twentieth century is likely to have been the largest of any century during the past 1000 years. • On average, between 1950 and 1993, night-time daily minimum air temperatures over land...
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The Far East and Australasia 2003

Europa Publications - 2002 - 1724 pages
...century, with new analyses for the Northern Hemisphere indicating that these temperature increases have been the largest of any century during the past 1,000 years. The major likely effect of global warming is a potential rise in the mean sea-level owing to the thermal...
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Climate Change and Human Health: Risks and Responses

Anthony J. McMichael - 2003 - 340 pages
...apparent, even taking into account recent warming trends. The increase in temperature over the twentieth century is likely to have been the largest of any century during the past 1000 years (Figure 2.6) (5). The warmth of the 1990s was outside the 95% confidence interval of temperature...
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - 2004 - 106 pages
...1.4 degrees Fahrenheit [See Figure 1, IPCC Working Group I Summary for Policymakers, 2001, page 3]. The average temperature increase in the Northern Hemisphere...rings, corals, ice cores, and historical records. Other observed changes are consistent with this warming. There has been a widespread retreat of mountain...
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Climate Change: A Natural Hazard

William Kininmonth - 2004 - 220 pages
...that the IPCC chose to use the analysis in support of its claim that the increase in temperature in the 20th century is likely to have been the largest of any century during the past 1,000 years. It is even more surprising when, in presenting their findings, the authors of the analysis had concluded,...
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