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Climbing plants disturb carbon storage in tropical forests
2015-10-13 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Scientists have discovered that climbing vines are upsetting the carbon balance of tropical forests by crowding out and killing trees. Rainforests play a vital role in the global carbon cycle. We depend on the trees found in these tropical areas to take up some of the carbon dioxide that we are emitting, so not all of our emissions end up in the atmosphere. In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and led by Dr Geertje van …
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This conservative economist makes the case for a carbon tax
2015-10-12 17:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: N. Gregory Mankiw is, if not a household name, a dorm-room one. His Principles of Economics textbook is the standard for most college intro-to-econ courses, with more than a million copies sold. A professor at Harvard, Mankiw teaches the universitys most popular undergraduate course, Econ. 10. Hes also well known in Republican circles. President George W. Bush named him chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in 2003, and in 2006, Mitt Romney brought on Mankiw as an economic adviser, a role...
MIT study finds carbon prices more cost-effective than fuel economy regs at reducing CO2 emissions; fuel economy regs more efficient at reducing fuel use
2015-10-12 16:55:32| Green Car Congress
Paleoclimate researchers find connection between carbon cycles, climate trends
2015-10-12 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Making predictions about climate variability often means looking to the past to find trends. Now paleoclimate researchers from the University of Missouri have found clues in exposed bedrock alongside an Alabama highway that could help forecast climate variability. In their study, the researchers verified evidence suggesting carbon dioxide decreased significantly at the end of the Ordovician Period, 450 million years ago, preceding an ice age and eventual mass extinction. These results will help climatologists...
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Shift from fossil fuels risks popping 'carbon bubble': World Bank
2015-10-10 15:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The transition from fossil fuels must be carefully managed to avoid an economically disastrous bursting of the "carbon bubble," the World Bank's top climate official said on Saturday. Decades of reliance on oil, gas and coal have made them central to the global economy, and polluting industries risk a potentially catastrophic crash as the world shifts to alternative energies, said Rachel Kyte, the Bank's special envoy for climate change. "If we accept that we need to have less carbon in our...
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