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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... least as far as the averaged conditions are concerned . " Climate models also provide good simulations of the earth's seasonal changes , various historical climates ( paleoclimates ) , Venus's warm greenhouse atmosphere , and Mars's ...
... least as far as the averaged conditions are concerned . " Climate models also provide good simulations of the earth's seasonal changes , various historical climates ( paleoclimates ) , Venus's warm greenhouse atmosphere , and Mars's ...
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... least 27.5 miles per gallon ( mpg ) by 1985. But there were delays in implementing that standard , and in 1988 U.S. Transportation Secretary James Burnley rolled back the average to 26.5 mpg . In 1989 the Bush Administration ...
... least 27.5 miles per gallon ( mpg ) by 1985. But there were delays in implementing that standard , and in 1988 U.S. Transportation Secretary James Burnley rolled back the average to 26.5 mpg . In 1989 the Bush Administration ...
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... least two decades . And yet we continue to hear sophomoric rationalizations about not wearing seat belts , and indeed , as of 1991 only 59 percent of all drivers were strapping in . ( But at least the percentage has been increasing ...
... least two decades . And yet we continue to hear sophomoric rationalizations about not wearing seat belts , and indeed , as of 1991 only 59 percent of all drivers were strapping in . ( But at least the percentage has been increasing ...
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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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