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GREENHOUSE AGE [1 record]

Record 1 1997-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Climate Change
CONT

My principal purpose with "Global Warming: Are we entering the greenhouse century?" is to make the basic issues and policy implications of global atmospheric change more accessible to the public... Incidentally, to answer responsibly the question posed in the subtitle of this book takes eight chapters. But the one line response is simple: I believe we are already a decade or two into the greenhouse century; a decade or two more should prove that beyond a reasonable doubt.

OBS

Because the greenhouse disruption will presumably take place as we enter the twenty-first century, the greenhouse age can alternatively be known as the "greenhouse century".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Changements climatiques
DEF

Époque de l'histoire de l'humanité qui sera marquée par des bouleversements climatiques si l'hypothèse de l'augmentation de l'effet de serre anthropique se vérifie.

OBS

À cause du phénomène de l'inertie thermique des océans, la confirmation de l'existence d'un réchauffement climatique pourrait coïncider avec l'arrivée du XXIe siècle. Le terme «siècle» prendrait alors aussi le sens plus restreint de «centaine d'années» définies par rapport au début de «ère chrétienne».

Spanish

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