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Showing 1 to 20 of 797 for “"global warming"”.
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Understanding public perceptions of global warming
… the determinants on Americans’ perceptions of global warming and individuals’ environmentally significant behaviors to reduce global warming. Specially, I examine how contextual variables, primarily represented by local weather and climate, attitudinal variables, and socio-demographic …
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Estimating global warming from anthropogenic heat emissions
… human civilisation, produces a direct climate warming. Today, the globally averaged AHF is negligibly small compared to the indirect forcing from greenhouse gas emissions. Locally or regionally, though, it has a significant impact. Historical observations show a constant exponential growth of …
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COAL, GLOBAL WARMING, AND THE CLEAN AIR ACT
… production of greenhouse gases was causing global warming. Carbon dioxide is produced in far greater quantities than other greenhouse gases. Over 80 percent of the carbon dioxide produced in the United States comes from coal-fired power plants. If global warming is a threat to the welfare …
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Development of the global warming agenda in Japan
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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The strategy of Japanese oil companies under global warming
Global warming is becoming a greater issue for human beings. People's life has become rich, comfortable and convenient, especially in developed countries. The rich life is supported by huge energy consumption and the energy consumption by human beings destroys natural balance of the earth. As …
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Architecture Against Global Warming: A Research Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
Global greenhouse gas emissions are a serious threat to the environment. Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have exponentially released gasses and chemicals into the atmosphere which have resulted in the warming of the earth. One major source stems from agriculture and the indirect processes …
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Global warming and world ecosystem distribution : toward quantifying ecosystem change
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1993.
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Hailfall in a future climate using a pseudo-global warming approach
… SCS and hail change, this study uses a pseudo-global warming (PGW) approach to simulate seven different historic hailstorms in their historical environments and again in PGW environments obtained from five different CMIP5 members. Changes in large-scale environmental parameters were generally …
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Oxide etching with NF₃ hydrocarbon chemistries for global warming emissions reduction
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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Global warming, energy efficiency and the role of the built environment
… the Buildings Sector, energy efficiency and global warming. Through a qualitative analysis the author illustrates the connection between these three areas and shows how both energy efficiency, as a key policy measure, and the Buildings Sector, as the key recipient of such policies, can act …
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Viticultural techniques of canopy management to mitigate the effects of global warming
The overall aim of this thesis was to assess the effects of different cultural techniques on grape yield components and fruit quality. In particular, within the climate change scenario, their effectiveness of delaying grape technological ripening and improving the anthocyanins-to-sugar ratio was …
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Changes in atmospheric eddy length with the seasonal cycle and global warming
… eddies increases in simulations of future global warming. This thesis expands on Kidston et al.'s work with additional studies of eddy length in the NCEP2 reanalysis (a model-data synthesis that reconstructs past atmospheric circulation) and general circulation models (GCMs) from the …
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Relationships between global warming and tropical cyclone activity in the Western North Pacific
… work, we investigate the relationships between global warming and tropical cyclone activity in the Western North Pacific (WNP). Our hypothesis is that global warming impacts on TC activity occur through changes in the large scale environmental factors (LSEFs) known to be important in determining …
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Heat transfer performance and prediction of low global warming potential R134a refrigerant alternatives
… environmental regulations are phasing out high global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants such as R134a. Since many potential alternative refrigerants have flammability and cost concerns, minimizing system charge is critical. The condenser is typically responsible for 50% of the charge of a …
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MOVEMENT WITHOUT MOTION: THE RHETORIC OF CONSERVATIVE COUNTER-CLAIMS TO GLOBAL WARMING THEORY
… tanks, this thesis analyzes counter-claims to global warming theory to identify rhetorical artifacts that typically characterize conservative responses to issues, and to show how rhetorical theory can help anticipate the nature of such responses. The research identifies unifying speech codes – …
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“If it happened in…” a pseudo-global warming assessment of tropical cyclone tornadoes
… (CTRL) to simulations conducted using a “pseudo-global” warming (PGW) approach, which allows for an assessment of impacts of climate changes on specific weather and climate events. The PGW simulations involve future climate conditions over the late (2080-2090) 21st century period under RCP 8.5, …
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Inferring Extinct Reptilian Response To Global Warming: Insights From Modern Stable Isotope Ratios
… (Wa4) assemblage, a key time between two major global warming events (Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and Early Eocene Climatic Optimum). I identify xenosaurid and glyptosaurine squamates and alethinophidian snakes. The xenosaurid is one of the youngest representatives of Restes rugosus, and I …
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