Global Climate Change: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oceanography and the Great Lakes of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, on H.R. 980 ... May 4, 1989 |
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Page 103 - Foundation. **The National Center for Atmospheric Research Is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Page 30 - ... interacting parts of the total environmental system upon which we depend not only for the quality of our lives, but for life itself. We face immediate and compelling needs for better protection of life and property from natural hazards, and for a better understanding of the total environment — an understanding which will enable us more effectively to monitor and predict its actions, and ultimately, perhaps to exercise some degree of control over them.
Page 113 - ... global basis) will in fact continue into the 1990s and beyond. (I expect it will, but I can't prove it, of course.) If we choose to wait for that added degree of certainty, then this is not a cost-free delay, for it must be done at the price of forcing us and other living things to have to adapt to a much larger dose of change than if we were to act today to slow down the change or to invest affirmatively to make our future adaptations easier. Wrangling over a few tenths of a degree in the historic...
Page 155 - We are also concerned that the US government must find a way to approach such arrangements in the future, both within the executive branch, and between the executive branch and the Congress, so that the kind of political battle that has raged over the FSX will not be repeated. That debate has almost certainly cost the US more future business, jobs, and access to technology both with respect to Japan and to other potential partners, than any shortcomings in the FSX program.
Page 79 - Chamber's members are small business firms with fewer than 100 employees, 60 percent with fewer than 10 employees. Yet, virtually all of the nation's largest companies are also active members. We are particularly cognizant of the problems of smaller businesses, as well as issues facing...
Page 79 - American Chambers of Commerce abroad, an increasing number of members are engaged in the export and import of both goods and services and have ongoing investment activities. The Chamber favors strengthened international competitiveness and opposes artificial US and foreign barriers to international business. Positions on national issues are developed by a cross-section of Chamber members serving on committees, subcommittees, and task forces.
Page 79 - Commerce is the world's largest federation of business companies and associations and is the principal spokesman for the American business community. It represents approximately 180,000 businesses and organizations, such as local/state chambers of commerce and trade/professional associations.
Page 108 - Karl at the National Climate Center in Asheville, North Carolina did. Therefore, Karl was able to check the accuracy of predictions of temperature trends in the United States made by both the GISS and CRU groups. What he found was that the GISS results had overestimated the warming trend in the US by a little less than 0.4°C...
Page 30 - The oceans and the atmosphere are interacting parts of the total environmental system upon which we depend not only for the quality of our lives, but for life itself.
Page 114 - The most perplexing question about climate models is whether they can be trusted to provide grounds for altering social policies, such as those governing carbon dioxide emissions.