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Low Carbon Technology Plan
Date: May 19, 2008
Creator: Kagaku Gijutsu Kaigi (Japan)
Description: The document describes Japan's strategy for transforming into a low carbon society, through the promotion of alternative energy sources and energy efficient technologies.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29340/
Water Resources and Climate Prediction: Linking Science with Decisions
Date: 2008
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
Description: This brochure summarizes research that focuses on the scientific ability to predict climate on seasonal and year-to-year timescales and the opportunity to incorporate such information into water resource management decisions.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29382/
Human Health and Welfare and Climate Change: Summary and Findings of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Date: 2008
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
Description: This brochure summarizes a report of the same title. It describes the likely impacts of climate change on human health, and potential adaptation strategies to limit the risks and damages.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29381/
Towards New Scenarios for Analysis of Emissions, Climate Change, Impacts, and Response Strategies
Date: 2008
Creator: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Description: This report summarizes the findings and recommendations from the Expert Meeting on New Scenarios, which focuses on the policymaking perspective of climate change, and on climate modeling scenarios for near term and long term.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29362/
The Ozone Layer: Ozone Depletion, Recovery in a Changing Climate, and the "World Avoided"
Date: 2008
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
Description: This brochure describes the role of ozone in the stratosphere, and the effect it has on ultraviolet light, as well as how the Montreal Protocol and subsequent laws have affected ozone-depleting pollutants in the atmosphere.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29377/
Climate Models: Frequently Asked Questions about computer climate models and their uses, strengths and limitations
Date: 2008
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
Description: This brochure describes methods and technologies for assessing and predicting climate change.
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Climate and Airborne Pollutants
Date: 2008
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
Description: This brochure provides an overview of how air pollutants have an impact on climate change.
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Reanalysis and Attribution: Understanding How and Why Recent Climate Has Varied and Changed
Date: 2008
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
Description: This brochure discusses climate change, and scientific methods of making climate observations.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29376/
Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report
Date: 2008
Creator: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Description: According to the introduction, this Synthesis Report is based on the assessment carried out by the three Working Groups (WGs) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). It discusses the observations of climate change, causes and effects, options for adaptation and mitigation, and remaining uncertainties.
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Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate : Frequently Asked Questions
Date: 2008
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
Description: This brochure corresponds with the Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate Synthesis and Assessment Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. It highlights observed changes and likely projections in North American weather, and how changes in North American weather are likely to have an adverse economic effect.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29327/