Carbon dioxide review 1982

Book · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 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
• Journal Information: Science (Washington, D.C.); (United States), Other Information: From review by F.K. Hare, Trinity College, in Science (21 January 1983)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press,Clarendon, England
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CARBON DIOXIDE
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GREENHOUSE EFFECT
BUILDUP
CARBON CYCLE
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COMBUSTION
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
FOSSIL FUELS
GLOBAL ASPECTS
PLANKTON
SEAS
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TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
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CHALCOGENIDES
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