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Testimony to the US Senate on the greenhouse effect

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6330186
This testimony was presented on January 28, 1987 at the hearing on ''The Greenhouse Effect, Climate Change and Ozone Depletion,'' United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Environmental Protection and Subcommittee on Hazardous Wastes and Toxic Substances. The testimony concerns the observed global warming that has occurred over the past 100 years. How this temperature record was obtained is summarized and the details of the record described, with particular reference to the most recent decades and to the differences between the records for Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The record is compared with the predicted warming over the same period due to the effects of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. The projected warming over the next 70 years is compared with global temperature changes that have occurred over the past few million years. (ACR)
Research Organization:
East Anglia Univ. (UK)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-86ER60397
OSTI ID:
6330186
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/60397-T2; ON: DE87013995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English