Implications of Global Warming for Natural Resources: Oversight Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session ... Hearings Held September 27, 1988: Washington, DC; October 17, 1988: San Francisco, CA.U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 - 668 pages |
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Page 175 - To describe and understand the interactive physical, chemical and biological processes that regulate the total Earth system, the unique environment that it provides for life, the changes that are occurring in this system, and the manner in which they are influenced by human activities.
Page 467 - Association (CMA); and other national and international scientific agencies, eg the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), to resolve these outstanding uncertainties in an expeditious manner.
Page 86 - IPCC was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The role of the IPCC is to assess the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.
Page 649 - Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war. The Earth's atmosphere is being changed at an unprecedented rate by pollutants resulting from human activities, inefficient and wasteful fossil fuel use and the effects of rapid population growth in many regions. These changes represent a major threat to international security and are already having harmful consequences over many parts of the...
Page 156 - ... (A) slowing the rate of increase of concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in the near term; and (B) stabilizing or reducing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases over the long term; and (4) work toward multilateral agreements. (b) FORMULATION OF UNITED STATES POLICY. — The President, through the Environmental Protection Agency, shall be responsible for developing and proposing to Congress a coordinated national policy on global climate change.
Page 611 - describe and understand the interactive physical, chemical, and biological processes that regulate the total earth system, the unique environment that it provides for life, the changes that are occurring in this system, and the manner in which they are influenced by human actions.
Page 19 - The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Page 649 - The best predictions available indicate potentially severe economic and social dislocation for present and future generations which will worsen international tensions and increase risk of conflicts between and within nations. It is imperative to act now. These were the major conclusions of the World Conference on The Changing Atmosphere: Implications for Global Security, held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 27-30 June 1988.
Page 474 - Draining wetlands can cause large changes in methane production, another important gas related to global temperature changes. It is clear that global, continuous monitoring of such anthropogenically induced changes, as well as naturally occurring variations, can only be obtained from satellites. NASA is encouraging the development of the International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project to develop methodologies for deriving quantitative information concerning land surface climatological variables...
Page 58 - A three-dimensional climate model has been used to compute the winter to summer temperature extremes all over the globe. The model's performance can be verified against the observed data shown below. This verification exercise shows that the model quite impressively reproduces many of the features of the seasonal cycle. These seasonal temperature differences are mostly larger than those occurring between ice ages and interglacials or for any plausible future carbon dioxide change.