Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies and Mandates : Case Study 2--climate Models and Projections of Potential Impacts of Global Climate Change : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, November 16, 1995, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996 - 1190 pages |
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... Regional estimates . Delete . They are unreliable . IPCC should be aware that the unreliability of these selfsame predictions from previous editions has served as the basis for overturning or refusing externality costs for CO2 emissions ...
... Regional estimates . Delete . They are unreliable . IPCC should be aware that the unreliability of these selfsame predictions from previous editions has served as the basis for overturning or refusing externality costs for CO2 emissions ...
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... regional climate variables . If there weren't there would be no need for weather forecasters . Strike the sentence ; leave the previous one in . Section 3.2 . The given range is not right . According to figure 7 , the range with ...
... regional climate variables . If there weren't there would be no need for weather forecasters . Strike the sentence ; leave the previous one in . Section 3.2 . The given range is not right . According to figure 7 , the range with ...
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... regional scales on time scales of decades . And a good climate model is one that simulates not only the mean but its variability reasonably well . Models do a fairly decent job of that , not wonderful , but a pretty decent job . And ...
... regional scales on time scales of decades . And a good climate model is one that simulates not only the mean but its variability reasonably well . Models do a fairly decent job of that , not wonderful , but a pretty decent job . And ...
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... regional scale pre- dictions is still low , this does not preclude an assessment of the sensitivity of human health , ecological and social economic systems to changes in climate . Working Group II primarily focused on assessing the ...
... regional scale pre- dictions is still low , this does not preclude an assessment of the sensitivity of human health , ecological and social economic systems to changes in climate . Working Group II primarily focused on assessing the ...
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... regional scale predictions is still low , this does not preclude an assessment of the sensitivity of human health , ecological systems and socio - economic sectors to changes in climate . IPCC Working Group II primarily focused on ...
... regional scale predictions is still low , this does not preclude an assessment of the sensitivity of human health , ecological systems and socio - economic sectors to changes in climate . IPCC Working Group II primarily focused on ...
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