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Revision as of 22:41, April 26, 2007
, 22:41, April 26, 2007a doubling of carbon dioxide would cause a warming of from .5 to 1.2 degrees centigrade
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A '''runaway greenhouse effect''' has been predicted for [[Earth]] based on unverified [[computer model]]s of untested climate theories.
A '''runaway greenhouse effect''' has been predicted for [[Earth]] based on unverified [[computer model]]s of untested climate theories.
[[Richard Lindzen]] wrote:
:It is still of interest to ask what we would expect a doubling of carbon dioxide to do. A large number of calculations show that if this is all that happened, we might expect a warming of from .5 to 1.2 degrees centigrade. The general consensus is that such warming would present few, if any, problems. [http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv15n2/reg15n2g.html]
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