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Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change (America's Climate Choices) by National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, America's Climate Choices: Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Climate Change is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Climate change, driven by the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, poses serious, wide-ranging threats to human societies and natural ecosystems around the world. The largest overall source of greenhouse gas emissions is the burning of fossil fuels. The global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the dominant greenhouse gas of concern, is increasing by roughly two parts per million per year, and the United States is currently the second-largest contributor to global emissions behind China.</p> <p><em>Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change</em>, part of the congressionally requested America's Climate Choices suite of studies, focuses on the role of the United States in the global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The book concludes that in order to ensure that all levels of government, the private sector, and millions of households and individuals are contributing to shared national goals, the United States should establish a "budget" that sets a limit on total domestic greenhouse emissions from 2010-2050. Meeting such a budget would require a major departure from business as usual in the way the nation produces and uses energy
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- Author
- National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, America's Climate Choices: Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Climate Change
- Publisher
- National Academies Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780309145985
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Physics, Stem
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