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Climate Change 1995. The science of climate change. Contribution of Working Group I to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Author(s) : IPCC, WMO, ONU Environnement (ex-PNUE), HOUGHTON J. T., MEIRA-FILHO L. G., CALLANDER B. A., HARRIS N., KATTENBERG A., MASKELL K.

Type of monograph: Report

Summary

This volume is companion to two other volumes from the IPCC (see hereafter and Bull. 96.6, abstract 96-3847). It is a comprehensive assessment of current scientific understanding of human influences on past, present and future climate. The report includes: an overview of the factors governing climate and climate change; quantification of the sources of the globally important greenhouse gases and other pollutants arising from human activities; analyses of data on climates of the distant past, and an assessment of recent trends in climate during the industrial era; assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the various mathematical models; discussion of recent research aimed at the detection of a human influence on the climate of the last century; projections of possible future changes in global climate and sea-level, based on a range of scenarios of future emissions of pollutants from human activity; a list of research and observational priorities.

Details

  • Original title: Climate Change 1995. The science of climate change. Contribution of Working Group I to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
  • Record ID : 1997-1281
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Environment, General information
  • Publication: Cambridge university press - United kingdom/United kingdom
  • Publication date: 1996
  • ISBN: 0521564360
  • Source: Source: 584 p. (21.5 x 27.9); fig.; tabl.; append.; GBP 22.95.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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