NSF Forum: Understanding Climate Change Through Long-Term Ecological Research

NSF Forum: Understanding Climate Change Through Long-Term Ecological Research
Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:57:00 -0600

Human activities such as burning of fossil fuels and land use change have increased atmospheric carbon dioxide by 40 percent since the start of the industrial revolution, researchers have found.

The result is a hotter Earth, with warmer average temperatures around the globe and a future climate system that will be more variable, and with more extreme events, says Scott Collins, a scientist at the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) ...

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