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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... estimates of the greenhouse effect seriously exaggerate the threat of global cli- matic change . The Marshall Institute report observes that although the earth's temperature has risen somewhat , increasing concentra- tions of greenhouse ...
... estimates of the greenhouse effect seriously exaggerate the threat of global cli- matic change . The Marshall Institute report observes that although the earth's temperature has risen somewhat , increasing concentra- tions of greenhouse ...
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... estimates of the greenhouse effect have seri- ously exaggerated its importance . ○ New Information on Global ... estimate " for green- house warming in the next century is 2.5 ° C . When the IPCC prediction is low- ered by a factor of ...
... estimates of the greenhouse effect have seri- ously exaggerated its importance . ○ New Information on Global ... estimate " for green- house warming in the next century is 2.5 ° C . When the IPCC prediction is low- ered by a factor of ...
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... estimates of the greenhouse effect have substantially exaggerated its importance , according to a study by ... estimate " . When the IPCC best estimate is corrected for the 500 % error in the calculations on which it is based , the ...
... estimates of the greenhouse effect have substantially exaggerated its importance , according to a study by ... estimate " . When the IPCC best estimate is corrected for the 500 % error in the calculations on which it is based , the ...
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... estimates have been of- fered , a definitive answer to that question appears to be decades away . The current generation of general circulation models used for global climate projections have many deficiencies . The ability to predict ...
... estimates have been of- fered , a definitive answer to that question appears to be decades away . The current generation of general circulation models used for global climate projections have many deficiencies . The ability to predict ...
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... Estimates of the costs of adaptation strategies need to be refined as well . All this is not to suggest that long - term basic and applied research to understand Earth's climate system should be curtailed . Indeed , such long - term ...
... Estimates of the costs of adaptation strategies need to be refined as well . All this is not to suggest that long - term basic and applied research to understand Earth's climate system should be curtailed . Indeed , such long - term ...
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