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Controlling the Greenhouse Effect - Five Global Regimes Compared (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Controlling the Greenhouse Effect - Five Global Regimes Compared (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Loot Price R362
Discovery Miles 3 620
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Roughly 30 percent of the solar radiation directed toward the earth
is reflected directly back into outer space. The remaining 70
percent is absorbed by earth and re-emitted outward as long-wave --
or infra-red -- radiation. While transparent to incoming solar
radiation, certain gases--notably carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide,
methane, and chlorofluorocarbons -- absorb, or " trap, " this
outgoing infra-red radiation near the earth's surface, producing an
increase in temperature. This is the so-called greenhouse effect.
The greater the concentration of these greenhouse gases, the more
pronounced will be the effect. Despite uncertainties, the
scientific consensus recorded at Villach, Austria, in 1985 was that
" the understanding of the greenhouse question is sufficiently
developed that scientists and policy-makers should begin an active
collaboration to explore the effectiveness of alternatives and
adjustments." The recent scientific assessment of climate change,
conducted under the auspices of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, has only strengthened the view that a concerted
multilateral response is called for. Brookings Occasional Papers
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