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Pittsburgh and other cities are driving innovations in green building, while engineers, home builders and. These complex and computerintensive global climate models have been developed to study global climate processes and to create projections of possible future climates. Analysis of spatiotemporal variability in bmabased tws changes and the mascon solution indicates that higher depletion rates for the year period apr 2002mar 2015 occurred over major aquifers due to groundwater withdrawals for irrigation e. The global climate system patterns, processes, and. Variability may be due to natural internal processes within the climate system, or to variations in natural or anthropogenic humandriven external forcing. References national research council, 2010a, advancing the science of climate change national research council, 2010b, limiting the magnitude of climate change national research council, 2010c, adapting to the impacts of climate change national research council, 2011d, informing an effective response to climate change national research council, 2010e, ocean. The cause of global warming january 2001 by vincent gray issn 14917874. Surface ice sheets also have an important role in the evolution of the climate system. Written by scientists and journalists at climate central, a nonpartisan advocacy group, the book begins with what everyone, climatechange skeptic included, accepts.
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