Global Climate Change: Adequacy of the National Action Plan : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, March 1, 1993, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993 - 121 pages |
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... Hemisphere . 90N 70N SON 30N- AMEste 10N- 10S 30S- 50S L 70S 4 90S 30W Figure 1. Change in mean temperature calculated for doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide , December - February ( Northern Hemisphere Winter ) . These projections are ...
... Hemisphere . 90N 70N SON 30N- AMEste 10N- 10S 30S- 50S L 70S 4 90S 30W Figure 1. Change in mean temperature calculated for doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide , December - February ( Northern Hemisphere Winter ) . These projections are ...
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... Hemisphere should warm more rapidly than the Southern Hemisphere , because land ( which predominates in our hemisphere ) heats faster than water . Has this been the case ? The top portion of Figure 2 ( Idso and Balling , 1991 ) is a ...
... Hemisphere should warm more rapidly than the Southern Hemisphere , because land ( which predominates in our hemisphere ) heats faster than water . Has this been the case ? The top portion of Figure 2 ( Idso and Balling , 1991 ) is a ...
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... hemisphere since 1935 is statistically indistinguishable from zero . The Southern Hemisphere continues to warm , although at a somewhat slower pace than it did prior to the greenhouse enhancement . It is doubtless that some of the ...
... hemisphere since 1935 is statistically indistinguishable from zero . The Southern Hemisphere continues to warm , although at a somewhat slower pace than it did prior to the greenhouse enhancement . It is doubtless that some of the ...
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... Hemisphere temperature as measured by satellite ( Christy , 1993 ) . The accuracy of this record is thought to be ... Hemisphere Anhy 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 YEAR Figure 4b . Mean ...
... Hemisphere temperature as measured by satellite ( Christy , 1993 ) . The accuracy of this record is thought to be ... Hemisphere Anhy 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 YEAR Figure 4b . Mean ...
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... Hemisphere . It should be eminently clear that our scientific understanding of the enhanced greenhouse is simply not commensurate with any expensive policy . Note that the observed temperatures are not the satellite measurements and ...
... Hemisphere . It should be eminently clear that our scientific understanding of the enhanced greenhouse is simply not commensurate with any expensive policy . Note that the observed temperatures are not the satellite measurements and ...
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Page 44 - The ultimate objective of this Convention and any related legal instruments that the Conference of the Parties may adopt is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a...
Page 67 - Protocol for the period referred to in subparagraph (a), with the aim of returning individually or jointly to their 1990 levels these anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol.
Page 67 - Article 12, detailed information on its policies and measures referred to in subparagraph (a) above, as well as on its resulting projected anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol for the period referred to in subparagraph (a), with the aim of returning individually or jointly to their 1990 levels these anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases...
Page 67 - Parties' starting points and approaches, economic structures, and resource bases, the need to maintain strong and sustainable economic growth, available technologies and other individual circumstances, as well as the need for equitable and appropriate contributions by each of these Parties to the global effort regarding that objective.
Page 45 - I shall incorporate in its annual inventory of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, submitted in accordance with the relevant decisions of the Conference of the Parties...
Page 55 - Promote and cooperate in the development, application and diffusion, including transfer, of technologies, practices and processes...
Page 44 - ... within a time frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.
Page 43 - Thank you Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee. I am Daniel Lashof, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Previously I was an Environmental Scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, where I was the lead author of the Draft Report to Congress Policy Options for Stabilizing Global Climate.
Page 6 - Convention, recognizing that the return by the end of the present decade to earlier levels of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol...
Page 45 - Based on feasible limits for the concentrations of greenhouse gases other than CO2 1 calculate that this target requires holding CO2 concentrations to about 400 ppm. Immediate action to reduce CO , emissions is essential if this limit is not to be exceeded. Industrialized countries, with 25% of the world's population, are responsible for 75% of current global emissions of CO, from the energy sector. Reducing energy-related CO, emissions from industrialized countries is the most important action needed...