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OUR CHANGING PLANET The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2007 A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and The Subcommittee on Global Change Research A Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 2007 Budget

Figure 9.  Globally Averaged Surface Air Temperature and Sea-Level Change Relative to 1980-1999 Base Period. Results from two state-of-the-art climate models (the Parallel Climate Model and the Community Climate System Model) in which greenhouse gas concentrations are stabilized at the end of the 20th century. Temperature and sea-level values are shown relative to the averages for the base period, 1980-1999. Credit: J. Arblaster, National Center for Atmospheric Research (reproduced with permission from Science).

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