Global Warming Unchecked: Signs to Watch forIndiana University Press, 1993 - 186 Seiten Discusses the social and environmental aspects of the greenhouse effect. |
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... electric utilities - which have billions of dollars invested in other sources - aren't about to become solar ... electricity by 2000. Subsequently President Carter's administra- tion projected that no more than about 25 percent of our ...
... electric utilities - which have billions of dollars invested in other sources - aren't about to become solar ... electricity by 2000. Subsequently President Carter's administra- tion projected that no more than about 25 percent of our ...
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... electricity . By 2055 , electric generating capacity to meet peak demand during the hottest weather could be as much as 30 percent greater than currently foreseen ( i.e. , no climate warming considered ) . The largest jumps in peak ...
... electricity . By 2055 , electric generating capacity to meet peak demand during the hottest weather could be as much as 30 percent greater than currently foreseen ( i.e. , no climate warming considered ) . The largest jumps in peak ...
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... electricity continues to increase . Since 1973 it has escalated by over 45 percent , and it will jump at least another ... electric generation from nuclear power ( nuclear fission ) in the United States has not resulted in a single death ...
... electricity continues to increase . Since 1973 it has escalated by over 45 percent , and it will jump at least another ... electric generation from nuclear power ( nuclear fission ) in the United States has not resulted in a single death ...
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PART II Greenhouse Gases Climate Models | 65 |
How Do We Know Whats Going to Happen? | 79 |
Crocodiles in New York | 97 |
Urheberrecht | |
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