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A matter of degrees : the potential for controlling the greenhouse effect / Irving M. Mintzer.

Title
A matter of degrees : the potential for controlling the greenhouse effect / Irving M. Mintzer.
Author
Mintzer, Irving M.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : World Resources Institute, 1987.

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Additional Authors
World Resources Institute.
Uniform Title
Environmental assessment collection
Subject
  • Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric
  • Atmospheric carbon dioxide
  • Air > Meteorological aspects
  • Atmospheric chemistry
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-60).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
  • committed to retain
Contents
THE GREENHOUSE PROBLEM -- THE MODEL OF WARMING COMMITMENT: carbon dioxide -- Other greenhouse gases -- Temperature effects of a greenhouse gas build-up -- SCENARIOS OF FUTURE ENERGY USE AND CO2 EMISSIONS: The base case scenario -- The high-emissions scenario -- The modest policies scenario -- The slow build-up scenario -- ATMOSPHERIC BUILD-UP OF CO2 AND OTHER GREENHOUSE GASES: Carbon dioxide -- Nitrous oxide -- Chlorofluorocarbons -- Methane -- Tropospheric ozone -- MODELLING RESULTS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS: Uncertainties in the data and assumptions -- Critique of the models.
OCLC
  • 16728195
  • SCSB-12872970
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library