The Impact of Global Warming

European Forests and Global Change: The Likely Impacts of Rising CO2 and Temperature

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Studies of global climate change predict that increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration and temperature are expected to occur over the next century. To help gain an insight into the potential effect of these changes on forests, this book describes how major European tree species respond to experimentally manipulated environmental conditions. The contributors describe the effects on photosynthesis, respiration, and development and use the results to generate models … More >>

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Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming

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Greenhouse is the illuminating history behind a scientific idea that fills’s today’s headlines. Christianson, author of Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae, blends the research of a scholar with a novelist’s storytelling skill. As the full range of its elements come into focus, global warming becomes both a memorable human drama and an integral part of our planet’s history. An essential book for anyone interested in the history of science and the very natur… More >>

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