 | Joyeeta Gupta - 1997 - 274 pages
...managed ecosystems or on the operation of socio-economic systems or on human health and welfare. 2. "Climate change" means a change of climate which is...variability observed over comparable time periods. 3. "Climate system" means the totality of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and geosphere and... | |
 | Prue Taylor - 1998 - 462 pages
...managed ecosystems or on the operation of socio-economic systems or on human health and welfare. 2. "Climate change" means a change of climate which is...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
...- in simple terms, the entirety of the planetary surface. Furthermore, climate change is defined as "a change of climate which is attributed directly...variability observed over comparable time periods." 1.1.1 Broad Conclusions The findings of the IPCC Second Assessment Report (accepted in December 1995... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science - 1999 - 1156 pages
...managed ecosystems or on the operation of socioeconomic systems or on human health and welfare. 2. "Climate change" means a change of climate which is...variability observed over comparable time periods. 3. "Climate system" means the totality of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and geosphere and... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science - 1999 - 1158 pages
...managed ecosystems or on the operation of socioeconomic systems or on human health and welfare. 2. "Climate change" means a change of climate which is...variability observed over comparable time periods. 3. "Climate system" means the totality of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and and their interactions.... | |
 | Joyce E. Penner, David Lister, David J. Griggs, David J. Dokken, Mack McFarland - 1999 - 392 pages
...volcanic aerosols. For the purposes of the UNFCCC (and this report), the definition of climate change is: "A change of climate which is attributed directly...variability observed over comparable time periods." This alteration of the global atmosphere includes changes in land use as well as anthropogenic emissions... | |
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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. 
