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Global Warming: Limitations of General Circulation Models and Costs of Modeling Efforts

RCED-95-164 Published: Jul 13, 1995. Publicly Released: Aug 14, 1995.
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Pursuant to congressional request, GAO reviewed the accuracy of general circulation models (GCM) in forecasting global warming trends, focusing on the: (1) factors limiting the accuracy of GCM estimates of future climatic changes; and (2) federal expenditures for GCM for fiscal years (FY) 1992 through 1994.

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