Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982. A joint hearing in the House of Representatives before the Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research and Environment and the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology. Among the presenters is James Hansen, best known for his appearance before the Senate in 1988 when he clearly stated that there exists a "cause and effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and observed [global] warming." In his testimony here, six years earlier, Hansen states, "...it is become increasingly clear that we should anticipate substantial climate change during the next several decades as a result of man's impact on the composition of the atmosphere." He advocates funding measurements of solar irradiance, trace gases, global cloud properties, heat storage and transport by the ocean, and ice sheet properties." Most all of these projects did become operational but are facing significant cuts in the current administration, including the proposed dismantling of a $368 million, 900-instrument deep-sea observation system that has provided crucial data on ocean systems and climate change. 150 pages. Stapled wrappers; creasing to the rear wrapper; near fine. A very early Congressional hearing on climate change, seven years before Bill McKibben's book The End of Nature, which is widely credited with being the first to bring this issue before a widespread, general audience. [#036827] SOLD