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Global and regional climate changes due to black carbon,

by V Ramanathan , G Carmichael - Nat. Geosci., , 2008
"... Figure 1: Global distribution of BC sources and radiative forcing. a, BC emission strength in tons per year from a study by Bond et al. Full size image (42 KB) Review Nature Geoscience 1, 221 -227 (2008 Black carbon in soot is the dominant absorber of visible solar radiation in the atmosphere. Ant ..."
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shorter lifetime compared with CO2 (which has a lifetime of 100 years or more), a major focus on decreasing BC emissions offers an opportunity to mitigate the effects of global warming trends in the short term (see, for example, only the non-BC aerosols were controlled, it could potentially add 2.3 W m -2

Impact of regional climate change on human health.

by Jonathan A Patz , Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum , Tracey Holloway , Jonathan A Foley , 2005
"... The World Health Organisation estimates that the warming and precipitation trends due to anthropogenic climate change of the past 30 years already claim over 150,000 lives annually. Many prevalent human diseases are linked to climate fluctuations, from cardiovascular mortality and respiratory illne ..."
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The World Health Organisation estimates that the warming and precipitation trends due to anthropogenic climate change of the past 30 years already claim over 150,000 lives annually. Many prevalent human diseases are linked to climate fluctuations, from cardiovascular mortality and respiratory

The carbon balance of tropical, temperate and boreal forests.

by Y Malhi , D D Baldocchi , P G Jarvis , Rd6 - Plant Cell and Environment, , 1999
"... ABSTRACT Forest biomes are major reserves for terrestrial carbon, and major components of global primary productivity. The carbon balance of forests is determined by a number of component processes of carbon acquisition and carbon loss, and a small shift in the magnitude of these processes would ha ..."
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that are ascribed to a terrestrial 'missing sink', a term that encompasses land-use change processes such as forest regrowth resulting from abandonment of agricultural land in mid-latitudes, as well as ecophysiological processes such as enhanced forest growth attributable to CO 2 fertilization, nitrogen

Carbon Dioxide Sequestration A Solution to a Global Problem CO2 AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

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"... Few subjects have been more polarizing over the past decade than global warming. A large body of evidence demonstrates that global temperatures are rising. Eleven of the past 12 years rank among the 12 warmest since the 1850s, when temperature began to be regularly recorded (IPCC 2005). This tempera ..."
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Few subjects have been more polarizing over the past decade than global warming. A large body of evidence demonstrates that global temperatures are rising. Eleven of the past 12 years rank among the 12 warmest since the 1850s, when temperature began to be regularly recorded (IPCC 2005

The Effects of Land Cover and Land Use Change on the Contemporary Carbon Balance of the Arctic and Boreal Terrestrial Ecosystems of Northern Eurasia

by Daniel J. Hayes, A. David Mcguire, David W. Kicklighter, Todd J. Burnside, Jerry M. Melillo
"... Abstract Recent changes in climate, disturbance regimes and land use and management systems in Northern Eurasia have the potential to disrupt the terrestrial sink of atmospheric CO2 in a way that accelerates global climate change. To determine the recent trends in the carbon balance of the arctic an ..."
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Abstract Recent changes in climate, disturbance regimes and land use and management systems in Northern Eurasia have the potential to disrupt the terrestrial sink of atmospheric CO2 in a way that accelerates global climate change. To determine the recent trends in the carbon balance of the arctic

The significance of the erosion-induced terrestrial carbon sink. Bioscience 2007, 57:337–346. FURTHER READING Gupta J. A history of international climate change policy

by Asmeret Asefaw Berhe , John Harte , Jennifer W Harden , Margaret S Torn - Interdiscip Rev: Clim Change 2010, 1:636–653. doi:10.1002/wcc.67 Lovell HC. Governing the carbon offset market. Wiley Interdiscip Rev: Clim Change 2010, 1:353–362. doi:10.1002/wcc.43 254 2011 John Wi ley & Sons, L td. Volume 2, March/Apr i l 2011
"... Estimating carbon (C) balance in erosional and depositional landscapes is complicated by the effects of soil redistribution on both net primary productivity (NPP) and decomposition. Recent studies are contradictory as to whether soil erosion does or does not constitute a C sink. Here we clarify the ..."
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there has been an increased interest in the ability of soils to affect atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2; The objectives of this paper are to (a) clarify the conceptual basis for why and how erosion can constitute a C sink and (b) argue that protection of marginal lands can have significant

Indicators for Social and Economic Coping Capacity - Moving Toward a Working Definition of Adaptive Capacity”, Wesleyan-CMU Working Paper.

by Gary Yohe , Richard S J Tol , Gary Yohe , 2001
"... Abstract This paper offers a practically motivated method for evaluating systems' abilities to handle external stress. The method is designed to assess the potential contributions of various adaptation options to improving systems' coping capacities by focusing attention directly on the u ..."
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in defining the boundaries of coping ranges -thresholds of relatively benign experience beyond which systems feel significant effects from change and/or variability in their environments. Section 2 uses a more formal representation of vulnerability to show how overall coping capacity might be judged

ORIGINAL ARTICLE CO2 absorption by alkaline soils and its implication to the global carbon cycle

by Chenhua Li, Æ Zhongdong Lan
"... Abstract Motivated by the rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 due to human activities since the Industrial Revolu-tion, and the climate changes it produced, the world’s concerned scientific community has made a huge effort to investigate the global carbon cycle. However, the results reveal that the gl ..."
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absorbing intensity, while high temperature and water content had a negative effect on the CO2 absorbing intensity of these soils. This inorganic, non-biological process of CO2 absorption by alkaline soils might have significant impli-cations to the global carbon budget accounting.

Global Warming: Are We Confusing Cause and Effect?

by Copyright Taylor, Leonid F. Khilyuk, George V. Chilingar
"... The writers show that the present-day global warming is not due to the increase in the volume of greenhouse gases, but rather to the increased solar activity. It appears that we are at the rising phase of the latest 80–90 year cycle of the solar activity. At the present time, there is no sound justi ..."
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justification for the cut in the man-induced carbon dioxide emission as required by the Kyoto Protocol of 1997. The rising global temperature drives large volumes of CO2 from the ocean water into the atmosphere. Thus “cause ” and “effect ” of global warming phenomenon are misunderstood by many scientists

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by Dissertationes Forestales, Kristiina Karhu, Prof Emeritus, Carl Johan Westman, Assoc Prof, Annemieke Gärdenäs , 2010
"... Temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition in boreal soils ..."
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Temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition in boreal soils
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