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Potential of geoengineering highly uncertain
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1st paragraph: Despite having the knowledge and tools to dial back greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and land-use change, humanity seems on trac...
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Classification of Climate Change-Induced Stresses on Biological Diversity
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Conservation actions need to account for and be adapted to address changes that will occur under global climate change. The identification of stresses on biolog...
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Conservation organizations, Human–wildlife interactions, Extinction risk, Conservation priority, Habitat destruction, Environmental Policy, Habitat degradatio...
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Higher Hydroclimatic Intensity with Global Warming
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Because of their dependence on water, natural and human systems are highly sensitive to changes in the hydrologic cycle. The authors introduce a new measure of ...
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Relationship between fire, climate oscillations, and drought in British Columbia, Canada, 1920–2000
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Climate oscillations such as El Nin ̃o–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) are known to affect temperature and precipitation re...
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GLOBAL WARMING AND FISH MIGRATIONS
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Ocean temperatures are expected to rise over the next decades. This is likely to affect the distribution of fish stocks between the exclusive economic zones (EE...
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Climate change and the world economy: short-run determinants of atmospheric CO2
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Volcanic eruptions, the El Nin ̃ o Southern oscillation (ENSO), world population, and the world economy are the four variables usually discussed as influencing...
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Environmental economics, CO2, Human civilization, Human population, Consumption, Climate Change, Consumer demand, Cost benefit analysis, Climate Impacts, Atmosp...
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Timing of climate variability and grassland productivity
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Future climates are forecast to include greater precipitation variability and more frequent heat waves, but the degree to which the timing of climate variabilit...
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The Influence of Climate, Soils, Weather, and Land Use on Primary Production and Biomass Seasonality in the US Great Plains
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Identifying the conditions and mechanisms that control ecosystem processes, such as net primary production, is a central goal of ecosystem ecology. Ideas have r...
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SOME REFLECTIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE, GREEN GROWTH ILLUSIONS AND DEVELOPMENT SPACE
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Many economists and policy makers advocate a fundamental shift towards “green growth” as the new, qualitatively-different growth paradigm, based on enhanced...
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GREEN-TREE RETENTION IN HARVEST UNITS: BOON OR BUST FOR BIODIVERSITY?.pdf
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etween trees and man there is a rift in the perception of time, and forest managers have no choice but to yield to the pace of the trees. This can make innovati...
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Greenhouse Gassed: Carbon Dioxide Spells Indigestion for Food Chains
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The author closes with a quote from a biologist who asks who will be chasing wild ungulates with nutrition supplements. CO2 is a fertilizer, with side effects. ...
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High-Resolution Greenland Ice Core Data Show Abrupt Climate Change Happens in Few Years
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The last two abrupt warmings at the onset of our present warm interglacial period, interrupted by the Younger Dryas cooling event, were investigated at high tem...
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Climate effects of global land cover change
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When changing from grass and croplands to forest, there are two competing effects of land cover change on climate: an albedo effect which leads to warming and a...
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How natural and anthropogenic influences alter global and regional surface temperatures: 1889 to 2006
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To distinguish between simultaneous natural and anthropogenic impacts on surface temperature, regionally as well as globally, we perform a robust multivariate a...
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Reduction of spring warming over East Asia associated with vegetation feedback
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Over East Asia, surface air temperature displays a significant increasing trend particularly in early months of the year for the period of 1982 – 2000. Warmin...
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Rising temperature depletes soil moisture and exacerbates severe drought conditions across southeast Australia
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Over the past decade the southern catchments of the Murray Darling Basin (MDB), responsible for much of Australia’s agricultural output, have experienced a se...
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Declining annual streamflow distributions in the Pacific Northwest United States, 1948–2006
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Much of the discussion on climate change and water in the western United States centers on decreased snowpack and earlier spring runoff. Although increasing var...
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Environmental asset loss, Regional runoff, Streamflow, Snow cover, Extreme scenarios, Riparian systems, Climate Impacts, Snow loss, Soil moisture deficits, Drou...
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Observed relation between evapotranspiration and soil moisture in the North American monsoon region
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Soil moisture control on evapotranspiration is poorly understood in ecosystems experiencing seasonal greening. In this study, we utilize a set of multi-year obs...
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Impact of reduced Arctic sea ice on Greenland ice sheet variability in a warmer than present climate
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A global climate model with interactive vegetation and a coupled ice sheet-shelf component is used to test the response of the Greenland ice sheet (GIS) to incr...
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Climate commitment in an uncertain world
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Climate commitment—the warming that would still occur given no further human influence—is a fundamental metric for both science and policy. It informs us of...
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Aerosols, Climate Impacts, Climate Adaptation, Climate and society, Climate Change, Greenhouse gas accounting, Carbon flux, Greenhouse gases, Carbon cycle, Atmo...
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