| 1992 - 336 pages
...the effects of clouds. Of course, the actual rate of warming over the next century will be governed by the growth rate of greenhouse gases, natural fluctuations...climate system, and the detailed response of the slowly responding parts of the climate system, ie oceans and glacial ice. Global-Mean Precipitation Increase... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1993 - 96 pages
...property acts to produce a net increased heating effect on the earth system. The uncertainties anse later from an incomplete knowledge as to how the complex...based on historical temperature records and recent cloud-radiation studies, is that the observed global warming is more likely to be in the lower half... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1993 - 304 pages
...absorption of solar radiation and thus, less heating. Increased stratospheric concentrations of COz will increase infrared radiative heat loss from the...based on historical temperature records and recent cloud-radiation studies, is that the observed global warming is more likely to be in the lower half... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1993 - 92 pages
...estimated to be in the range of 2-8xFarenheit. The most significant uncertainty arises from the effects 01 clouds. The actual rate of warming over the next century...based on historical temperature records and recent cloud-radiation studies, is that the observed global warming is more likely to be in the lower half... | |
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