| Contents Notes |
Global warming: the issue, impacts, responses / Dean Edwin Abrahamson -- Greenhouse effect: impacts on current global temperature and regional heat waves / James E. Hansen -- Changing atmosphere: implications for global security / Toronto Conference -- Scientific consensus / Villach (Austria) Conference -- Biotic causes and effects of the disruption of the global carbon cycle / George M. Woodwell -- Effects of global warming on biological diversity / Robert L. Peters -- Developing policies for responding to climate change / Jill Jaeger -- Greenhouse effects and impacts on physical systems / John Firor -- Scientific basis for the greenhouse effect / Gordon MacDonald -- Changes in soil moisture / Syukuro Manabe. Effects of climatic change on water supplies in the western United States / Roger R. Revelle and Paul E. Waggoner -- Causes and effects of sea level rise / James G. Titus -- Greenhouse surprises / Wallace S. Broecker -- Sources, sinks, trends, and opportunities / Peter Ciborowski -- Global warming, acid rain, and ozone depletion / Ralph Cicerone -- Observed increases in greenhouse gases and predicted climatic changes /V. Ramanathan -- Methane, CFCs, and other greenhouse gases / Donald R. Blake -- Dangers from climate warming: a public awakening / Rafe Pomerance -- One last chance for a national energy policy / Ralph Cavanagh, David Goldstein, and Robert Watson -- Analysis of the Montreal protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer / Office of Technology Assessment -- Near-term congressional options for responding to global climate change / William R. Moomaw. |
