The greenhouse effect: Formulating a convention
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In: Contemporary economic policy: a journal of Western Economic Association International, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 3-15
ISSN: 1465-7287
During the hot, dry summer of 1988, nearly every newspaper, magazine, and television and radio station in the United States discussed the hot weather and its possible connection with the "greenhouse effect." This public discussion was needed to alert many people to an important topic, but it also led to many misunderstandings about the physical and technical facts and studies involved in considering future climate heating. Some of these misunderstandings originate with the media, some result from the manner in which climate modelers make heating calculations, and a few result from words having meanings that are slightly different to scientists than they are to the general public. The most basic facts that one must understand are as follows, (i) Theory foreseeing a rapid climate heating during the coming decades is based on some of the best understood features of the atmosphere, (ii) The average surface temperature of the earth has increased during the past 120 years, but this increase has been far from uniform and does not prove or disprove that a climate heating is under way. (Hi) The technology is available to begin decreasing rapidly the emission of infrared‐trapping gases.
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 184-185
ISSN: 0264-8377
In: International affairs, Band 65, Heft 2, S. 313-314
ISSN: 1468-2346
Faced with the prospect of global warming, the anticipated rapid rise in global air temperatures due to the release of gases into the atmosphere, we have two choices of how to respond: adaptation or avoidance. With adaptation we keep burning fossil fuels, let global temperatures rise and make whatever changes this requires: move people from environmentally damaged areas, build sea walls, etc. With avoidance we stop warming from occurring, either by reducing our use of fossil fuels or by using technology such as carbon dioxide recovery after combustion to block the warming effect. Yet each str
In: Economic bulletin, Band 31, Heft 6, S. 19-24
ISSN: 1438-261X
In: The Geneva papers on risk and insurance - issues and practice, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 386-392
ISSN: 1468-0440
In: Development: the journal of the Society of International Development, Heft 3, S. 39
ISSN: 0020-6555, 1011-6370
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 460
ISSN: 0276-8739
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 471
ISSN: 0276-8739
In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 1, Heft 3, S. 237-270
ISSN: 1573-1502
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