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Remote sensing revealed nitrogen-oxygen atmostpheres on the fifth and sixth moons; this type of atmosphere could only be produced by carbon-cycle life forms.
Will Future ‘Avatar’ Movies Focus On Pandora’s Neighboring Moons? » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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Moreover, the recent reduction in the response of trees to air-temperature changes would mean that estimates of future atmospheric CO2 concentrations, based on carbon-cycle models that are uniformly sensitive to high-latitude warming, could be too low.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Useful Reset: What Peer Review Is and Is Not 2009
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First, the carbon-cycle feedback you describe warmer oceans taking up a lower % of emitted carbon, leading to faster warming is not expected to happen any time soon.
The Simplest Explanation EliRabett 2010
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To Loehle: A curve-fit is not a model, and the existing carbon-cycle models are not curve fits.
A Puzzler, where did Loehle go too far? EliRabett 2010
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Moreover, the recent reduction in the response of trees to air-temperature changes would mean that estimates of future atmospheric CO2 concentrations, based on carbon-cycle models that are uniformly sensitive to high-latitude warming, could be toolow.
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Scientific research is one of the most important current uses of the Alaska boreal forest, with climate change effects and carbon-cycle investigations major topics of continuing interest.
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Large-scale CH4 flux models are currently not as advanced as general carbon-cycle models and few allow for projections of future change based on climate change scenarios.
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Tom M.L. Wigley (1940 -) is an Australian mathematical physicist and climatologist who made many important contributions to climate and carbon-cycle modeling and to climate data analysis.
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Tom M.L. Wigley (1940 -) is an Australian mathematical physicist and climatologist who made many important contributions to climate and carbon-cycle modeling and to climate data analysis.
Wigley, Tom M.L. 2008
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We cross carbon-cycle tipping points, such as the loss of the tundra, beyond which there is "no redemption."
Joseph Romm: Is the Financial Crisis More Dire than the Climate Crisis? 2008
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