| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science - 1999 - 1158 pages
...climate." The two sentences in the report which precede this statement are never quoted, but they state: "Our ability to quantify the human influence on global...These include the magnitude and patterns of long term variability and the time-evolving pattern of forcing by, and response to, changes in concentrations... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science - 1999 - 1156 pages
...climate." The two sentences in the report which precede this statement are never quoted, but they state: "Our ability to quantify the human influence on global...These include the magnitude and patterns of long term variability and the time-evolving pattern of forcing by, and response to, changes in concentrations... | |
| Joyce E. Penner, David Lister, David J. Griggs, David J. Dokken, Mack McFarland - 1999 - 392 pages
...adjusts rapidly to increases or decreases in emissions. • Our ability from the observed climate record to quantify the human influence on global climate...factors. These include the magnitude and patterns of long-term natural variability and the time-evolving pattern of forcing by, and response to, changes... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science - 1999 - 1220 pages
...soctoeconomk Information in the field of climate change. The most recent report of the IPCC concluded that: "Our ability to quantify the human Influence on global...signal Is still emerging from the noise of natural varlabll tty, and because there are uncertainties In key factors. These include the magnitudes and... | |
| Clark A. Miller, Paul N. Edwards - 2001 - 406 pages
...the art in the physical-science understanding of climate change, contained the following paragraph: Our ability to quantify the human influence on global...factors. These include the magnitude and patterns of long-term natural variability and the time-evolving pattern of forcing by, and response to, changes... | |
| Terry J. Williamson, Antony Radford, Helen Bennetts - 2003 - 174 pages
...world to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the IPCC 1995 report was somewhat guarded in its conclusions. Our ability to quantify the human influence on global...factors. These include the magnitude and patterns of long-term natural variability and the time-evolving pattern of forcing by, and response to, changes... | |
| Vaclav Smil - 2003 - 452 pages
...evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate" (IPCC 2001, p. 3), it also notes that our ability to quantify the human influence on global...and because there are uncertainties in key factors. Unfortunately, these inherent uncertainties have made it easy to turn the debate about global climate... | |
| Neil E. Harrison, Gary C. Bryner - 2004 - 410 pages
...that there could be substantial climate "surprises." The SAR's most salient conclusion was that the ability to quantify the human influence on global...factors. These include the magnitude and patterns of long-term natural variability and the time-evolving pattern of forcing by, and response to, changes... | |
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