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GLOBAL CLIMATIC ISSUES IN THE COASTAL WIDER CARIBBEAN REGION
Citation:
Gable, F., J. Gentile, AND D. Aubrey. GLOBAL CLIMATIC ISSUES IN THE COASTAL WIDER CARIBBEAN REGION. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/J-90/245 (NTIS PB91116939).
Description:
Interest among public, governmental, and scientific communities about 'global' climatic warming and the associated meteorological and oceanographic effects, is a topic of very considerable concern (McElroy, 1989; Mitchell, 1989). uring the past several years, numerous national and international scientific committees have addressed this problem, as have newspapers and popular magazines. Government-sponsored legislation, particularly in the United States (for example, see Wirth, 1989), has been introduced to deal with the causes of `global' climate change. hanges in climate are the norm when one studies the history of the Earth. hese changes include the glacial epochs and the contemporary climatic variation of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (Gable and Aubrey, 1989). xamination of paleoclimatic records illustrate considerable natural and spatial variability which makes long-term (20-100 years) forecasting of climate change highly uncertain. uture climate (and arguably the present), however, will be influenced by man-induced as well as natural processes. ogether, these forcings will cause future climate to evolve in uncertain ways (Schneider, 1987).
