Global Climate Change: Adequacy of the National Action Plan : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, March 1, 1993, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993 - 121 pages |
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... temperatures and alter their associated circulation and weather patterns . However , the magnitude , timing and ... temperature of the globe's atmosphere as a consequence of a doubling of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide ...
... temperatures and alter their associated circulation and weather patterns . However , the magnitude , timing and ... temperature of the globe's atmosphere as a consequence of a doubling of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide ...
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... temperatures and alter their associated circulation and weather patterns . However , the magnitude , timing and ... temperature of the globe's atmosphere as a consequence of a doubling of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide ...
... temperatures and alter their associated circulation and weather patterns . However , the magnitude , timing and ... temperature of the globe's atmosphere as a consequence of a doubling of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide ...
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... temperature has increased by about 0.5-0.7 ° C during the last century and that the ambient concentrations of a suite of heat - trapping gases are increasing in the lower atmosphere as a result of anthropogenic emissions that ...
... temperature has increased by about 0.5-0.7 ° C during the last century and that the ambient concentrations of a suite of heat - trapping gases are increasing in the lower atmosphere as a result of anthropogenic emissions that ...
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... temperature of only 1 ° C is all that separates today's climate from that of the Little Ice Age of the 14th to 17th centuries . In this medieval period , during cold snaps Scandinavians could walk across the Baltic from Sweden to ...
... temperature of only 1 ° C is all that separates today's climate from that of the Little Ice Age of the 14th to 17th centuries . In this medieval period , during cold snaps Scandinavians could walk across the Baltic from Sweden to ...
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... temperature , precipitation , and partial pressure of greenhouse gases . In some cases , for example , economically important plant species have shown increased growth and improved water use efficiency . In other cases , food crops have ...
... temperature , precipitation , and partial pressure of greenhouse gases . In some cases , for example , economically important plant species have shown increased growth and improved water use efficiency . In other cases , food crops have ...
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Page 7 - Convention, stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production...
Page 18 - Promote and cooperate in the development, application and diffusion, including transfer, of technologies, practices and processes...
Page 30 - Article 12, detailed information on its policies and measures referred to in subparagraph (a) above, as well as on its resulting projected anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol for the period referred to in subparagraph (a), with the aim of returning individually or jointly to their 1990 levels these anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases...
Page 30 - Parties' starting points and approaches, economic structures, and resource bases, the need to maintain strong and sustainable economic growth, available technologies and other individual circumstances, as well as the need for equitable and appropriate contributions by each of these Parties to the global effort regarding that objective.
Page 6 - Thank you Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee. I am Daniel Lashof, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Previously I was an Environmental Scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, where I was the lead author of the Draft Report to Congress Policy Options for Stabilizing Global Climate.
Page 7 - The Conference of the Parties, as the supreme body of this Convention, shall keep under regular review the implementation of the Convention and any related legal instruments that the Conference of the Parties may adopt, and shall make, within its mandate, the decisions necessary to promote the effective implementation of the Convention.
Page 7 - Simpler models, which simulate the behaviour of GCMs. are also used to make predictions of the evolution with time of global temperature from a number of emission scenarios. These so-called box-diffusion models contain highly simplified physics but give similar results to GCMs when globally averaged.
Page 8 - Based on feasible limits for the concentrations of greenhouse gases other than CO2 1 calculate that this target requires holding CO2 concentrations to about 400 ppm. Immediate action to reduce CO2 emissions is essential if this limit is not to be exceeded. Industrialized countries, with 25% of the world's population, are responsible for 75% of current global emissions of CO2 from the energy sector. Reducing energy-related CO, emissions from industrialized countries is the most important action needed...
Page 6 - Energy Program has more than ten years of experience in promoting energy efficiency and least-cost energy planning. In 1988 NRDC launched its Atmosphere Protection Initiative (API) to provide a coordinated response to the related threats to the integrity of the earth's atmosphere-global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, and urban smog. This effort involves more than a dozen NRDC scientists, resource specialists, and attorneys expert in climate, energy efficiency, nuclear energy, forestry, agriculture,...