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Climate Change And Society
Consequences Of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
William W. Kellogg
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Consequences Of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
William W. Kellogg
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As man's ability to disrupt the climate becomes increasingly apparent, evidence is mounting that human-activity-induced climate changes may well rival anything nature can produce. If the consensus of the international climatological community is correct, and if worldwide use of fossil fuel continues to increase atmospheric carbon dioxide, mankind is
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Index
Africa. See East Africa; North Africa; South Africa
African Conference on Ancyclosto- miasis (1963), 84
Agnes, 104
Agriculture, 25, 59, 64, 68, 120. See also Agrotechnology
Agroclimatic zones, 65
Agronomy, 24
and agronomists, 4, 47
Agrotechnology, 5, 14, 114–115
Air conditioning, 5, 62, 64
Air pollution, 18, 120, 123, 132
Air Pollution Fund (Netherlands), 130
Albanese, A., 111
Albedo, 46
Allen, L. H., 70
Altithermal Period, 6–7, 43, 65, 74, 157–160, 161 (map), 166
Anchovy production, 8, 79, 81
Antarctic
and exploitation, 124
and greenhouse effect, 3
ice sheets, 10, 39, 44–45, 46, 88–90
snow cover, 45
Anthony, V.C., 82
Anthropologists, 4
Appolonio, S., 82
Aqueducts, 114
Arbitral tribunals, 18, 124
Arctic
biome, 6
and climate models, 42
and greenhouse effect, 3
soil, 64
Soviet, 77
See also Subarctic reigons; Tundra, Arctic
Arctic Basin, 44, 45, 73
Arctic Ocean ice pack, 44, 45, 46
ASEAN. See Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Asia, 64, 148 (table), 166
Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 160
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), 18, 124
Atlantic Ocean, 110
Atmosphere
kinetic energy of, 45
-ocean models, 41, 42, 46, 47, 153–154 (table), 155, 162
simulation of, 39, 42, 45
Atmospheric circulation patterns, 3, 45
Australia, 160
Bacillary dysentery, 9, 84
Baes, C.F., Jr., 111
Bananas, 68
Barley production (1978), 67 (chart)
Bartholic, J. F., 67
Benzene, 144–145 (table)
Biggs, R. H., 67
Biomass
as carbon dioxide source, 35
and liquid fuels, 13
power source, 5, 15, 36, 64, 112–113
Biomes, 6–7, 71
and carbon dioxide-induced climate change, 57, 71–72, 73, 1...