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Changes in the Land: Environmental Stresses and the Terrestrial Biosphere's Capacity to Store Carbon
Jerry Melillo paints a grim picture: human land use -- specifically the conversion of forests into agricultural land -- represents an irreversible loss of the capacity of the planet to store carbon.
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With Henry Jacoby, Ronald Prinn, John Heywood, Karen Polenske and others.
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With Henry Jacoby, Ronald Prinn, John Heywood, Karen Polenske and others.
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MIT Spectrum - Winter 2007
There's one basic answer to the question, Why are we worried about energy? The answer is climate change, argues MIT's Ron Prinn: if there were no global warming threat associated with fuels like oil and coal, there'd be no crisis.
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Author: Ronald G. Prinn, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology