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(Encyclopedia) global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. Global warming and its effects,...

(Encyclopedia) Broecker, Wallace Smith brōkˈər [key], 1931–2019, American geophysicist, b. Chicago, Ph.D. Columbia, 1958. He was a member of Columbia's faculty from 1959. In the 1970s he predicted rising temper...

(Encyclopedia) Warming, Johannes Eugenius Bülow yōhänˈəs ĕo͝ogāˈnēo͝os büˈlou värmˈĭng [key], 1841–1924, Danish botanist, a founder of the science of plant ecology. He was a professor at the Univ. ...

(Encyclopedia) climate change: see global warming. ...

(Encyclopedia) Kyoto Protocol: see global warming. ...

(Encyclopedia) greenhouse effect: see global warming. ...

(Encyclopedia) Nordhaus, William Dabney, 1941–, American economist, b. Albuquerque, N.Mex., Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967. A professor at Yale since 1967, he has focused on the economic effects...

(Encyclopedia) Global Positioning System: see navigation satellite. ...

(Encyclopedia) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientific panel created (1988) by two United Nations organizations, the UN Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization. Open to all...

(Encyclopedia) Hasselmann, Klaus, 1931–, b. Hamburg, Germany. German climate scientist and oceanographer. Hasselmann is the founder and former director of the Max ...