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Global warming and ice ages: I. prospects for physics based modulation of global change

@inproceedings{Teller1996GlobalWA,
  title={Global warming and ice ages: I. prospects for physics based modulation of global change},
  author={Edward Teller and Lowell Wood and Roderick A. Hyde},
  year={1996}
}
It has been suggested that large-scale climate changes, mostly due to atmospheric injection of greenhouse gases connected with fossil-fired energy production, should be forestalled by internationally-agreed reductions in, e.g., electricity generation. The potential economic impacts of such limitations are obviously large: greater than or equal to $10{sup 11}/year. We propose that for far smaller - less than 1% - the mean thermal effects of greenhouse gases may be obviated in any of several… 
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