Contents of Vol. 1,
by Jesse H. Ausubel, David G. Victor, and Iddo K. Wernick
Much has changed in the environment and how it is managed in the quarter
century since the first Earth Day in April of 1970. Environmental awareness
has undeniably increased, and while progress has been uneven, both in the U.S.
and among other countries of the world, a number of indicators show marked
by Eric J. Barron
Expectations of significant global greenhouse warming rest on a combination of
scientific fact, what is now known of atmospheric and ocean behavior, and
projections, based on these, that are obtained from a diverse battery of
computerized, General Circulation Models (GCMs). Weighing the level of
confidence in what goes into GCMs and the limitations of what they can do helps
in evaluating the reliability of their overall predictions.
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