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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... Atmosphere , with a focus on improving our understanding of the global - scale impacts of natural and human processes on the chemical composition of the atmosphere and determining the effect of such changes on air quality and human ...
... Atmosphere , with a focus on improving our understanding of the global - scale impacts of natural and human processes on the chemical composition of the atmosphere and determining the effect of such changes on air quality and human ...
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... Atmospheric Administration , and the Smithsonian Institution will all play important roles in this effort , guided by a ... atmosphere , ocean , forests , agricultural lands , and rangelands , using improved inventory techniques and new ...
... Atmospheric Administration , and the Smithsonian Institution will all play important roles in this effort , guided by a ... atmosphere , ocean , forests , agricultural lands , and rangelands , using improved inventory techniques and new ...
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... Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have increased about 30 % since the onset of the Industrial Revolution . The level of CO2 in our atmosphere , which is about 365 parts per million by volume ( ppmv ) right now , is already significantly ...
... Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have increased about 30 % since the onset of the Industrial Revolution . The level of CO2 in our atmosphere , which is about 365 parts per million by volume ( ppmv ) right now , is already significantly ...
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... atmosphere . Since pre - industrial times , carbon dioxide concentrations are up about 30 percent , methane concentrations have doubled , and nitrous oxide is up about 15 percent . Since these gases help trap the sun's radiation , over ...
... atmosphere . Since pre - industrial times , carbon dioxide concentrations are up about 30 percent , methane concentrations have doubled , and nitrous oxide is up about 15 percent . Since these gases help trap the sun's radiation , over ...
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... atmosphere is essentially opaque already with carbon dioxide . There is enough CO2 up there that it is opaque to re - radiation of most of the energy being emitted by the Earth , and that what we are doing when we increase CO2 is we are ...
... atmosphere is essentially opaque already with carbon dioxide . There is enough CO2 up there that it is opaque to re - radiation of most of the energy being emitted by the Earth , and that what we are doing when we increase CO2 is we are ...
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