Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 1990: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, Part 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 |
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Page 328 - Programme <UNEP), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) , and the International Council of Scientific unions (ICSU). The most significant recent event has been the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
Page 248 - June, and again at the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Berlin in September.
Page 327 - 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 156 - In summary , it is clear that significant progress has been made in our understanding of the physical and chemical processes that control the distribution of ozone and the temperature structure of the atmosphere. However, we must recognize that significant uncertainties in our knowledge remain, and that these can only be resolved by a continued program of research.
Page 146 - US scientific agencies and international scientific agencies such as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The scientific assessments have been conducted and written by the best scientists in the world.
Page 170 - ... due to thermal expansion of sea water in the warmer future climate. Far less certain are the contributions due to melting and calving of land ice. Predictions of actual rise rates for mean sea level remain difficult.
Page 201 - ... global basis) will in fact continue into the 1990s and beyond. (I expect it will, but I can't prove it, of course.) If we choose to wait for that added degree of certainty, then this is not a cost-free delay, for it must be done at the price of forcing us and other living things to have to adapt to a much larger dose of change than if we were to act today to slow down the change or to invest affirmatively to make our future adaptations easier. Wrangling over a few tenths of a degree in the historic...
Page 145 - Any future interdisciplinary, integrated Earth Science program, will require an interactive Global Resource Information System. NASA has initiated a number of pilot programs to establish the requirements for such a system. Specifically, the two critical issues being addressed are: (1) how best to create a data management system capable of dealing with interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary questions of global scope, and (2) how best to provide, in advance, for handling the unprecedented flow of...
Page 161 - MAHLMAN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is Jerry Mahlman. I am the Director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of NOAA in Princeton, New Jersey. I will provide scientific estimates of climate change as well as the current uncertainties.
Page 165 - I will offer my perspectives on model estimates of climate change and their current level of uncertainties. For over thirty years our Laboratory has been a pioneer in mathematical modeling of the earth's climate. For many decades scientists have known that...