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Global Warming: Why Business is Taking it So Seriously.
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Consensus is growing among scientists, governments, and business that they must act fast to combat climate change. This has already sparked efforts to limit CO[... |
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The role of terrestrial plants in limiting atmospheric CO2 decline over the past 24 million years
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Environmental conditions during the past 24 million years are thought to have been favourable for enhanced rates of atmospheric carbon dioxide drawdown by silic... |
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Temperature increase of 21st century mitigation scenarios
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Estimates of 21st Century global-mean surface temperature in- crease have generally been based on scenarios that do not include climate policies. Newly develope... |
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The energetic implications of curtailing versus storing solar- and wind-generated electricity
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We present a theoretical framework to calculate how storage affects the energy return on energy
investment (EROI) ratios of wind and solar resources. Our metho... |
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Seasonal weather patterns drive population vital rates and persistence in a stream fish
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Here, we investigated effects of seasonal air temperature and precipitation (fall, winter, and spring) on survival and recruitment of brook trout (Salvelinus fo... |
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On the difference in the net ecosystem exchange of CO2 between deciduous and evergreen forests in the southeastern United States
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The southeastern United States is experiencing a rapid regional increase in the ratio of pine to deciduous forest ecosystems at the same time it is experiencing... |
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Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide
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Efforts to control climate change require the stabilization of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. This can only be achieved through a drastic reduction of global C... |
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The millennial atmospheric lifetime of anthropogenic CO2
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The notion is pervasive in the climate science community and in the public at large that the climate impacts of fossil fuel CO2 release will only persist for a ... |
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UrbanEcosysBird.pdf
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Investment, transformation and leadership CDP S&P 500 Climate Change Report 2013 On behalf of 722 investors representing US$87 trillion in assets
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Sample text : Fears are increasing over future climate change impacts as we see more extreme weather events, Hurricane Sandy the most noted with damages totall... |
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Large Woody Debris and Salmonid Habitat in the Anchor River Basin, Alaska
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A widespread and intense spruce beetle outbreak during the 1990s has killed most of the mature white spruce (Picea glauca) trees across many watersheds in south... |
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Consequences of widespread tree mortality triggered by drought and temperature stress
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Forests provide innumerable ecological, societal and climatological benefits, yet they are vulnerable to drought and temperature extremes. Climate-driven forest... |
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Adapting to flood risk under climate change
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Flooding is the most common natural hazard and third most damaging globally after storms and earthquakes. Anthropogenic climate change is expected to increase f... |
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Climate change impacts on the biophysics and economics of world fisheries
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Global marine fisheries are underperforming economically because of overfishing, pollution and habitat degradation. Added to these threats is the looming challe... |
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Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity
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A central challenge for sustainability is how to preserve forest ecosystems and the services that they provide us while enhancing food production. This challeng... |
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Rapid deposition of oxidized biogenic compounds to a temperate forest
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We report fluxes and dry deposition velocities for 16 atmospheric compounds above a southeastern United States forest, including: hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), nitr... |
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prosperity_without_growth_report.pdf
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Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity
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Many studies in recent years have investigated the effects of climate change on the future of biodiversity. In this review, we first examine the different possi... |
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SE carbon sink.pdf
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Spatiotemporal patterns of terrestrial carbon cycle during the 20th century
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We evaluated how climate change, rising atmospheric CO2 concentration, and land use change influenced the terrestrial carbon (C) cycle for the last century usin... |
