Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pāgines |
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... warming climate is paradoxical . " Very cold air cannot hold enough moisture to sus- tain major snowstorms ; with warmer conditions , larger snowfalls are more likely contrary to the public's perception . Global warming has not and will ...
... warming climate is paradoxical . " Very cold air cannot hold enough moisture to sus- tain major snowstorms ; with warmer conditions , larger snowfalls are more likely contrary to the public's perception . Global warming has not and will ...
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... warming as a scheme of " environmental wackos ( who ) ... want to attack our way of life , " as one of our commenta- tors would have it , are performing a great disservice to themselves and their societies . They are part of the problem ...
... warming as a scheme of " environmental wackos ( who ) ... want to attack our way of life , " as one of our commenta- tors would have it , are performing a great disservice to themselves and their societies . They are part of the problem ...
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... warming and carbon dioxide . See Carbon dioxide and ice sheets , 143 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... warming , 134–135 . ground radiation , 204 media popularization of , 4 See also Global warming ; Greenhouse gases ...
... warming and carbon dioxide . See Carbon dioxide and ice sheets , 143 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... warming , 134–135 . ground radiation , 204 media popularization of , 4 See also Global warming ; Greenhouse gases ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
Copyright | |
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