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report “ Climate Change : Meeting the Challenge ” that “ global mean temperatures are increasing . By 2030 the world is likely to be warmer than at any time in the past 120,000 years . A best guess is that sea - level will rise by 17–26 ...
report “ Climate Change : Meeting the Challenge ” that “ global mean temperatures are increasing . By 2030 the world is likely to be warmer than at any time in the past 120,000 years . A best guess is that sea - level will rise by 17–26 ...
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With the climate changes forecast for the middle of the next century , in the lifetime of many already born , and with global mean temperatures on the planet higher than they have been in the last 150,000 years , we are entering the ...
With the climate changes forecast for the middle of the next century , in the lifetime of many already born , and with global mean temperatures on the planet higher than they have been in the last 150,000 years , we are entering the ...
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“ Climate Change : Meeting the Challenge , ” “ Engendering Adjustments for the 1990s , ” 81-82 135 Climate changes , see Global warming Energy , 58–59 , 64 , 148 , 226 , 229 , " Climate Change : The IPCC Scientific 243-45 , 257 , 260 ...
“ Climate Change : Meeting the Challenge , ” “ Engendering Adjustments for the 1990s , ” 81-82 135 Climate changes , see Global warming Energy , 58–59 , 64 , 148 , 226 , 229 , " Climate Change : The IPCC Scientific 243-45 , 257 , 260 ...
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| Title | Our Country, the Planet: Forging a Partnership for Survival |
| Author | S. S. Ramphal |
| Publisher | Lime Tree, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0413455815, 9780413455819 |
| Length | 291 pages |
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