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Revelle and Suess (1957) pointed out that human enterprise throughout our planet could yield “far-reaching insight into the processes determining weather and climate.” Today, scientists worldwide continue to search intensively for this insight into global weather and climate as the rate of emission of radiatively significant trace gases continues to increase. Much has been learned about the processes that determine weather and climate, but substantial uncertainty remains as predictions are made relative to future global warming and climate change.
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Dahm, C.N., Molles, M.C. (1992). Streams in Semiarid Regions as Sensitive Indicators of Global Climate Change. In: Firth, P., Fisher, S.G. (eds) Global Climate Change and Freshwater Ecosystems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2814-1_12
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