Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report: Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeCambridge University Press, 2001 - 397 pages The Climate Change 2001 volumes of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC provide the most comprehensive assessment of climate change since its second report, Climate Change 1995. This Synthesis Report gives a comprehensive summary of the main points of the three separate volumes of the Report: The Scientific Basis; Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability; and Mitigation. This synthesis will be particularly valuable for students and researchers who require a summary of the main issues in climate change, and will form a standard reference for policy decisions in governments and industry the world over for many years to come. |
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Contents
Working Group Summaries | 147 |
33335 | 189 |
Technical Summary Climate Change | 196 |
The Forcing Agents That Cause Climate F 6 Projections of Future Changes in Thermohaline | 218 |
Contents | 221 |
Scope and Approach of the Assessment | 238 |
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Information Needs | 289 |
Contents | 306 |
Technological and Economic Potential | 313 |
Technological and Economic Potential | 325 |
Policies Measures and Instruments | 332 |
Global Regional and National Costs | 338 |
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Sectoral Costs and Ancillary Benefits | 346 |
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Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report: Third Assessment Report of the ... Robert T. Watson No preview available - 2001 |
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20th century 21st century adaptive capacity aerosols agriculture ancillary benefits Annex anthropogenic areas Asia barriers baseline changes in climate Chapter climate change mitigation climate models climate system climate variability CO₂ coastal costs crop decades decrease developing countries droughts economic ecosystems effects El Niño emission reductions emissions scenarios emissions trading environmental equity estimates extreme events Figure floods fossil fuel frequency future gases GHG emissions global average global mean greenhouse gas greenhouse gas emissions high confidence ice sheet impacts of climate implementation increase infrastructure IPCC Kyoto Protocol land loss magnitude medium confidence mitigation policies natural negative ocean ozone permafrost population potential precipitation production projected radiative forcing range reduce regions response result risk sea-level rise sector social socio-economic species SRES scenarios stabilization studies Summary for Policymakers sustainable development technologies temperature change thermohaline circulation tropical cyclones uncertainties warming WGII TAR Sections WGIII
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