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" Emissions resulting from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and nitrous oxide. These increases will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting... "
Defining National Security: The Nonmilitary Aspects - Page 17
by Joseph J. Romm - 1993 - 122 pages
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Environmental Quality: The ... Annual Report of the Council on Environmental ...

Environmental protection - 1990 - 412 pages
...product of work by hundreds of experts worldwide. The IPCC First Assessment Report6 concluded that emissions resulting from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of gases that trap heat in the atmosphere and that these increases will enhance the atmosphere's natural...
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Global Biomass Burning: Atmospheric, Climatic, and Biospheric Implications

Joel S. Levine - Nature - 1991 - 612 pages
...the report. The report's Executive Summary states that "emissions resulting from human Introduction activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric...enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth's surface. The main greenhouse gas, water vapor, will increase in...
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Global Warming and Other Environmental Consequences of Energy Strategies ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Protection - Energy conservation - 1991 - 344 pages
...there is a natural greenhouse effect which already keeps the Earth wanner than it would otherwise be. o emissions resulting from human activities are substantially...of the greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, the chlorofluorocarbons and nitrous oxide. These increases will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting...
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Global Climate Change and Greenhouse Emissions: Hearings Before ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment - Science - 1991 - 432 pages
...please? Mr. SIKORSKI. Sure. They say, "We are certain of the following:" — and this is the second — "Emissions resulting from human activities are substantially...atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases" — and then they name them — "carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons, and nitrous oxide. These...
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Global Environment: A National Energy Strategy : Hearing Before ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power - Energy conservation - 1991 - 278 pages
...One of their conclusions is that there is not a great deal of certainty, but they are certain that emissions resulting from human activities are substantially...atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases and that these increases will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting, on average, in a gradual warming...
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Global Climate Change and Greenhouse Emissions: Hearings Before ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment - Science - 1991 - 440 pages
...atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbon [CFE], and nitrous oxide. These increases will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting, on average, in an additional warming of the Earth's surface. The main greenhouse gas, water vapor, will increase in...
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Global Warming and Other Environmental Consequences of Energy Strategies ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Protection - Energy conservation - 1991 - 344 pages
...atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, the chlorofluorocarbons and nitrous oxide. These increases will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth's surface. The greenhouse gas, water vapor, will increase in response...
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Implications of the Middle Eastern Crisis for Near-term and Mid-term Oil ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - Iraq-Kuwait Crisis, 1990-1991 - 1991 - 140 pages
...surrounding climate change. The key findings are: —In regard to science, the report concludes that emissions resulting from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, and that these increases will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average...
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Dictionary of Global Climate Change

Science - 1992 - 260 pages
...There is a natural greenhouse effect which already keeps the Earth warmer than it would otherwise be. Emissions resulting from human activities are substantially...enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth's surface. The main greenhouse gas, water vapour, will increase...
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Global Warming: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power - Political Science - 1992 - 196 pages
...assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, issued in August 1990, states that "emissions resulting from human activities are substantially...enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the earth's surface." The Department of Commerce contracted with DRI/McGraw-Hill...
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