Climate Change

Cover Art for 9781234563585, Climate Change by Filippo Maria Renazzi
ISBN: 9781234563585
Publisher: Books LLC
Published: 25 January, 2013
Format: Paperback
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LC Number: KF27 .E5524 2007d OCLC Number: (OCoLC)233984282 Subject: Global warming. Excerpt: ... 10 sciences, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute. He was a lead or contributing author to various chapters of the IPCC's third as-sessment report and is a lead and contributing author to the fourth assessment report. Dr. Roni Avissar also joins us from Duke University where he is the W.H. Gardner professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research is focused on devel-opment and evaluation of various environmental fluid dynamics models to study ocean, land, atmospheric interactions at the var-ious spatial and temporal scales. Dr. John Christy joins us from the University of Alabama in Huntsville where he is a professor and director of the Earth Sys-tems Science Center. He is also Alabama's State climatologist. He was a lead author of the IPCC's third assessment report and is a contributor to the fourth assessment report. We welcome each of our witnesses. Your prepared written state-ments will be made a part of the record and we would be pleased to receive your oral summaries of approximately 5 minutes. Dr. Hurrell, we will be pleased to begin with you. STATEMENT OF JAMES W. HURRELL, DIRECTOR, CLIMATE AND GLOBAL DYNAMICS DIVISION, NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH URRELL Mr. H. Mr. Chairman, I thank you, Ranking Member Hastert and the other members of the subcommittee for the oppor-tunity to speak with you today on observed and likely future changes in climate and the contribution from human activity to those changes. Although uncertainties continue to exist, significant advances in the scientific understanding of climate change now make it clear, as recently stated by the IPCC, that the warming of the climate system is unequivocal and that this warming goes beyond the range of natural variability. The globe is warming dramatically compared with natural h...

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