Greenhouse Effect and Global Climate Change: Hearings Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session ... November 9 and 10, 1987 [, June 23, 1988].U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - Global temperature changes |
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Page 44 - Global warming is now sufficiently large that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship to the greenhouse effect.
Page 33 - THE inhabitants of planet Earth are quietly conducting a gigantic environmental experiment. So vast and so sweeping will be the consequences that, were it brought before any responsible council for approval, it would be firmly rejected. Yet it goes on with little interference from any jurisdiction or nation. The experiment in question is the release of CO, and other so-called 'greenhouse gases
Page 43 - Number one, the earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrument measurements. Number two, the global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe with a degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship to the greenhouse effect. And number three, our computer climate simulations indicate that the greenhouse effect is already large enough to...
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Page 50 - Principal results from the experiments are as follows: (1) Global warming to the level attained at the peak of the current interglacial and the previous interglacial occurs in all three scenarios; however, there are dramatic differences in the levels of future warming, depending on trace gas growth.
Page 204 - RC (1987) Response of vegetation to rising carbon dioxide: Photosynthesis, biomass and seed yield of soybean.
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Page 48 - The shaded region in pan (a) is an estimate of global temperature during the peak of the current and previous interglacial periods — about 6,000 and 120,000 before the present, respectively.
Page 99 - Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I want to commend you for holding this hearing.
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| Title | Greenhouse Effect and Global Climate Change: Hearings Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session ... November 9 and 10, 1987 [, June 23, 1988]. Greenhouse Effect and Global Climate Change: Hearings Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session ... November 9 and 10, 1987 [, June 23, 1988], United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Volume 100, Issue 461 of S. hrg, United States Congress |
| Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 |
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