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Appendix B: Letter from the Climate Research Committee to the Department of State
Appendix B: Letter from the Climate Research Committee to the Department of State
Pages 81-83
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20502 Dear Dr. Gibbons: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has as one of its ultimate objectives the stabilization of greenhouse-gas concentrations to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
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66pp. 1990 "It is ironic and unfortunate that the new TOGA initiatives for long-term observations of the global atmosphere are being implemented in the face of an overall deterioration in some of the key elements of the World Weather Watch, whose long-term stability was taken for granted in the TOGA strategy document...some of the weather services are being forced to cut back on their contributions to the conventional observing system." (p.
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The best determinations of the geophysical fields of interest will be obtained by combining satellite and direct measurements, blending the unmatched spatial coverage of satellite sensors with the direct observations of greater accuracy or more direct connections to the geophysical parameters of concern. Therefore, a well-chosen network of direct observations will become more, not less important as satellite techniques advance." (p.
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