Fiscal Year 2000 Climate Change Budget Authorization Request: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, April 14, 1999, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 - 1457 pages |
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... Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) , which is the most comprehensive and rigorous overall assessment of climate change science and impacts , puts it this way : " The balance of evidence suggests ...
... Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) , which is the most comprehensive and rigorous overall assessment of climate change science and impacts , puts it this way : " The balance of evidence suggests ...
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... assessment of change and its potential consequences . Our current level of understanding tells us that climate change and its effects will vary by region , but we still do not have a good ability to project what will happen in any given ...
... assessment of change and its potential consequences . Our current level of understanding tells us that climate change and its effects will vary by region , but we still do not have a good ability to project what will happen in any given ...
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... Assessment Report , published in early 1996 , reviewed all the scientific evidence and has identified a series of climate changes that have been observed during this period : • Over the last century , the global mean ( average ) surface ...
... Assessment Report , published in early 1996 , reviewed all the scientific evidence and has identified a series of climate changes that have been observed during this period : • Over the last century , the global mean ( average ) surface ...
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... it should be well funded Because of its numerous analytic shortcomings , the EIA analysis provides an insufficient basis for assessment of this critical initiative . CIMENTO ENERY Department of Energy Washington , DC 20585 Dan 10 31.
... it should be well funded Because of its numerous analytic shortcomings , the EIA analysis provides an insufficient basis for assessment of this critical initiative . CIMENTO ENERY Department of Energy Washington , DC 20585 Dan 10 31.
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... assessment of the impacts of changes in the tax laws . Compared to some earlier tax credits , such as the solar tax credit of 40 percent which was enacted in 1978 and expired in 1985 , the incentives currently proposed are of small to ...
... assessment of the impacts of changes in the tax laws . Compared to some earlier tax credits , such as the solar tax credit of 40 percent which was enacted in 1978 and expired in 1985 , the incentives currently proposed are of small to ...
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Page 657 - Committee, shall prepare and submit to the President and the Congress an assessment which-- (1) integrates, evaluates, and interprets the findings of the Program and discusses the scientific uncertainties associated with such findings; (2) analyzes the effects of global change on the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and biological diversity; and (3) analyzes current trends in global...
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Page 348 - ... (This judgment takes into account the contributions to energy R&D that can reasonably be expected to be made by the private sector under market conditions similar to today's.) The inadequacy of current energy R&D is especially acute in relation to the challenge of responding prudently and cost-effectively to the risk of global climatic change from society's greenhouse-gas emissions, of which the most important is carbon dioxide from combustion of fossil fuels.