Carbon dioxide review 1982

Book · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1982 · Science (Washington, D.C.); (United States)

OSTI ID:5963903

Clark, W C ^[1]

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1. ed.

The buildup of CO/sub 2/ is a reality, monitored with increasing precision since 1957 and inferred for much earlier dates. A statistical section gives the monitored values to 1980, as well as a review of a long series of measurements made at Mauna Loa by the pioneers of such monitoring, Charles D. Keeling, Robert B. Bacastow, and Timothy P. Whorf. The book discusses internal transport processes in the ocean, of ocean-atmosphere interaction, of the magnitude of forest and soil carbon wastage, of the future course of fossil-fuel consumption. Yet something else emerges, too: if the CO/sub 2/ buildup continues; if the big general circulation models are right about its impact on climate, and if we have not miscalculated the potential role of the oceans, then we face a climatic change in the next century and a half like nothing the post-glacial world, and hence civilized humanity, has seen.

• OSTI ID: 5963903
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
BUILDUP
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON CYCLE
CARBON DIOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CLIMATES
COMBUSTION
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
ENERGY SOURCES
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
GLOBAL ASPECTS
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
MONITORING
OXIDATION
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PLANKTON
SEAS
SEASONAL VARIATIONS
SURFACE WATERS
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
VARIATIONS