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Climate Modelers Struggle to Understand Global Warming

FEB 01, 1990

DOI: 10.1063/1.2810435

In the sweltering summer of 1988 the public heard claims that global warming from the greenhouse effect had definitely begun. In the chilly winter of 1989/90 they are hearing skeptics question whether it will ever arrive. Just as temperatures fluctuate about an average value, the mean opinion on global warming falls somewhere between these extremes.

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Volume 43, Number 2

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