Environment - Global Climate Change

Climate Change Fact Sheets

In 1997 and 1998, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee minority staff prepared a series of fact sheets on the issue of global climate change.

Issue 1, September 9, 1997 -- What is the Greenhouse Effect?

Issue 2, September 18, 1997 -- The Relationship Between Carbon Dioxide Levels and Global Temperatures

Issue 3, October 3, 1997 -- Has Global Warming Already Begun?

Issue 4, October 27, 1997 -- How is Climate Predicted to Change in the Future?

Issue 5, November 25, 1997 -- Scientific Consensus

Issue 6, January 23, 1998-- The Kyoto Protocol

Issue 7, March 25, 1998 -- Five Myths about Developing Countries and Climate Change

Issue 8, June 3, 1998 -- Evaluating the Critic's Predictions for the Kyoto Protocol: Economic Forecasts for the Clean Air Act in Retrospect

Issue 9, July 14, 1998 -- Weather, Climate Change & El Nino