 | Joyeeta Gupta - 1997 - 274 pages
...on the operation of socio-economic systems or on human health and welfare. 2. "Climate change" means a change of climate which is attributed directly or...variability observed over comparable time periods. 3. "Climate system" means the totality of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and geosphere and... | |
 | Alexandre Kiss, Dinah Shelton - 1997 - 670 pages
...on the operation of socioeconomic systems or on human health and welfare. 2. "Climate change" means a change of climate which is attributed directly or...variability observed over comparable time periods. 3. "Climate system" means the totality of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and geosphere and... | |
 | Catrinus J. Jepma, Mohan Munasinghe - 1997 - 354 pages
...years. From Houghton et al. (1 996). BOX 1.1 What Causes Climate Change? Weather and Climate The UNFCCC defines climate change as "a change of climate which...variability observed over comparable time periods." To help the reader comprehend the climate change problem more fully, this box briefly describes what... | |
 | Prue Taylor - 1998 - 462 pages
...on the operation of socio-economic systems or on human health and welfare. 2. "Climate change" means a change of climate which is attributed directly or...variability observed over comparable time periods. 3. "Climate system" means the totality of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and geosphere and... | |
 | G. O. Obasi, E. Dowdeswell - 1998 - 72 pages
...differs from the usage in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change where "climate change" refers to a change of climate which is attributed directly or...variability observed over comparable time periods. 2 A simple measure of the importance of a potential climate change mechanism. Radiative forcing is... | |
 | Tim Hillier - 1998 - 920 pages
...on the operation of socio-economic systems or on human health and welfare. 2 'Climate change' means < }Թ7 qr f }G 3^e DA $[L M! {> A .... S |q v u 5 ާO> D k Zq Y~ ; v o x} considerable time periods. 3 'Climate system' means the totality of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere... | |
 | David D. Kemp - 1998 - 484 pages
...change adopted by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), which sees climate change as 'attributed directly or indirectly to human activity...variability observed over comparable time periods'. Much of the activity in the study of climate change reflects this interest in the human element. As... | |
| |
Climate change' means a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods. 
