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Modelling Climate Change 1860 2050
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Modelling Climate Change 1860 2050 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Atmospheric aerosols categories.
"This report presents a summary of the results of a computer modelling experiment which simulates human-induced climate change from 1860 to the present day and predicts future change up to 2050. The experiment takes account of two main influences of human actions on climate, namely the emissions of greenhouse gases and sulphur."--Page 2.
Modelling Climate Change 1860 2050
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Author : Bracknell Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Modelling Climate Change 1860 2050 written by Bracknell Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Climatic changes categories.
The Hadley Centre
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Author : Hadley Centre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Hadley Centre written by Hadley Centre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.
Presents summary of results of computer modelling experiment simulating human-induced cliamtic change from 1860 to present and includes predictions for future change to 2050.
Global Climate Change And Agricultural Production
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Author : Fakhri Bazzaz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Global Climate Change And Agricultural Production written by Fakhri Bazzaz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Business & Economics categories.
Issues covered in this book include the CO2 antitranspiration effect, and the adverse effects of elevated levels of UV-B radiation and ozone on plant growth, productivity and livestock. The book looks at the impact from a global perspective.
International Conference On Past Present And Future Climate
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Author : Pirkko Heikinheimo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
International Conference On Past Present And Future Climate written by Pirkko Heikinheimo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Climatic changes categories.
Multidimensional Global Change
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Author : Kirill I︠A︡kovlevich Kondratʹev
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-07
Multidimensional Global Change written by Kirill I︠A︡kovlevich Kondratʹev and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07 with Business & Economics categories.
Multidimensional Global Change Kirill Ya Kondratyev Forty years of technological progress have had a catastrophic impact on the environment, since this progress has been based on the ruthless exploitation of natural resources: 20 percent of the fertile soil on cultivated land has been lost; 20 per cent of tropical forests have been cleared; desertification continues at a rate of 6 million hectares annually; and deforestation amounts to 11 million hectares annually. Economic estimations practically never take into account this depletion and damage to natural resources, the harmful effect on human health, the deprivation of future generations of those natural resources, and the long-term impact in the form of biospheric deformation. In this text Kirill Kondratyev emphasises the extremely complex and interdisciplinary nature of multidimensional global change, highlighting its principal aspects and many practical consequences (economic, social, etc.), as well as the relationships between environmental problems on global, continental and national scales. He demonstrates that the main limiting factor of further quantitative development of humankind is the available biosphere resources and that the basic criterion of ecological well- (or ill-) being is the level of depletion of these resources. The author highlights an acute social controversy of the modern world in that the level of biospheric resource consumption in industrially-developed countries exceeds by far that in the Third World. This disparity could be eliminated through advancements such as the 'decarbonisation' of energy production, and the development of new technologies. However, he shows that radical improvement of the situation can only be achieved by reducing the population number and establishing a new, fair economic order. He emphasises that when considering global change problems it is important to avoid exaggerations, and he strikes a balance between the most gloomy predictions and more encouraging estimations. Readership: Professional scientists, environmentalists and engineers concerned with research relating to global change and its consequences, managers and senior engineers wishing to gain an insight into the problems caused by global change, and undergraduate and postgraduate students of geography, meteorology, climatology, atmospheric physics and environmental science.
Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society Of London
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language : en
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Release Date : 1995
Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society Of London written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Engineering categories.
Climate Change
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Author : Julian Morriss
language : en
Publisher: IEA
Release Date : 1997-12-19
Climate Change written by Julian Morriss and has been published by IEA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-19 with Business & Economics categories.
The world's climate is in constant flux: on time-scales from days to millennia, global and regional temperature, wind and rainfall patterns are changing. Over periods of decades and centuries, the most significant factor affecting climate appears to be changes in the output of the sun. Man's emissions of 'greenhouse gases' (GHGs) also play a role in altering climate. However, estimates suggest that only 30 to 40 per cent of the warming seen over the past century was caused by GHGs. Predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assume that most of the warming of the past century was caused by man's emissions and therefore overestimate the likely effect of future emissions. Better estimates suggest that if CO2 concentrations double, global-mean temperatures would rise by about 1.3 degrees centigrade with an upper limit of 2 degrees centigrade. Estimates by some of the world's most respected climate scientists suggest that even if a warming of 2 degrees centigrade does occur the impact on humankind will not be catastrophic; indeed agricultural productivity is likely to increase in many parts of the world, due to longer growing seasons and increases in uptake of CO2. IPCC lead authors have exaggerated the likely impacts of climate change in order to heighten public perception of the issue and thereby encourage governments to spend more on climate research. Between 1990 and 1995, annual US Government spending on climate research rose from $600m to $1.8bn. Estimates suggest that the cost of reducing CO2 emissions to 1990 levels by 2010 could be around 1 per cent of global output. Even assuming costs were only half that, the result would be less investment in the development of new technologies and considerable industrial downsizing, with consequent job losses. Furthermore, if significant natural climate change does occur in the next century - as it has over the past 100 years - then the cost of imposing limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other trace gases might be even greater. Whether this natural climate variation causes the Earth to warm or to cool, the consequence of emission limits would be that fewer resources would be available for taking adaptive action (such as installing air conditioning units or heaters) Given the uncertainty about climate change, the precautionary principle implies that we should improve our understanding of the world's climate and do what we can to ensure that we are able to adapt most effectively. This means collecting better data, encouraging scientists to develop and test competing theories about the causes and consequences of climate change, freeing up the world's markets, and eliminating subsidies.
Global Climate Change Student Guide
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Author : Joe Buchdahl
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Global Climate Change Student Guide written by Joe Buchdahl and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Atmospheric carbon dioxide categories.
International Politics Of Climate Change
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Author : Gunnar Fermann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
International Politics Of Climate Change written by Gunnar Fermann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Science categories.
A crucial question in years to come will be how states can circumvent the obstacles to improving the current climate change, problem-solving regime. These obstacles may be related to the basically anarchic logic of the international political system, the self-serving and often short-sighted motivation of national decision-makers, and - in all probability - the high costs involved in mitigating the problem of climate change.