Controlling the Greenhouse Effect - Five Global Regimes Compared

Informationen zum Autor By Joshua M. Epstein and Raj Gupta Klappentext "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."

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• Authors: Joshua M Epstein, Joshua M. Epstein, Joshua M./ Gupta Epstein, Epstein Joshua M., Raj Gupta, Gupta Raj
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1990
• EAN: 9780815724650
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-2465-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Brookings Occasional Papers; Brookings Occasional Papers
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, Meteorology & climatology, Meteorology and climatology, Greenhouse effect