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Methane and Climate Change
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In this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive and balanced overview of current knowledge of sources of methane and how these might be controlled to limit future climate change and highlight the potential to contribute significantly to climate change mitigation in the 21st century.Abstract:
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and is estimated to be responsible for approximately one-fifth of man-made global warming. Per kilogram, it is 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 100-year time horizon -- and global warming is likely to enhance methane release from a number of sources. Current natural and man-made sources include many where methane-producing micro-organisms can thrive in anaerobic conditions, particularly ruminant livestock, rice cultivation, landfill, wastewater, wetlands and marine sediments. This timely and authoritative book provides the only comprehensive and balanced overview of our current knowledge of sources of methane and how these might be controlled to limit future climate change. It describes how methane is derived from the anaerobic metabolism of micro-organisms, whether in wetlands or rice fields, manure, landfill or wastewater, or the digestive systems of cattle and other ruminant animals. It highlights how sources of methane might themselves be affected by climate change. It is shown how numerous point sources of methane have the potential to be more easily addressed than sources of carbon dioxide and therefore contribute significantly to climate change mitigation in the 21st century.read more
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Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis.
Stefano Schiavon,Roberto Zecchin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a document, redatto, voted and pubblicato by the Ipcc -Comitato intergovernativo sui cambiamenti climatici - illustra la sintesi delle ricerche svolte su questo tema rilevante.
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Biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity as key drivers of ecosystem services provided by soils
Pete Smith,Maria Francesca Cotrufo,Cornelia Rumpel,Keith Paustian,Peter Kuikman,Jane A. Elliott,Richard W. McDowell,Robert I. Griffiths,Susumu Asakawa,Mercedes M. C. Bustamante,Joanna Isobel House,J. Sobocká,Richard J. Harper,Genxing Pan,Paul C. West,James S. Gerber,Joanna M. Clark,Tapan Kumar Adhya,Robert J. Scholes,Mary C. Scholes +19 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the state-of-the-art understanding concerning the biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity in soil, and relate these to the provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural ecosystem services which they underpin.
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The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world
Eric Post,Richard B. Alley,Torben R. Christensen,Marc Macias-Fauria,Bruce C. Forbes,Michael N. Gooseff,Amy M. Iler,Jeffrey T. Kerby,Jeffrey T. Kerby,Kristin L. Laidre,Michael E. Mann,Johan Olofsson,Julienne Stroeve,Fran Ulmer,Ross A. Virginia,Muyin Wang,Muyin Wang +16 more
TL;DR: Expected consequences of increased Arctic warming include ongoing loss of land and sea ice, threats to wildlife and traditional human livelihoods, increased methane emissions, and extreme weather at lower latitudes.
“Stabilization wedges: Solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies” from science magazine (2004)
TL;DR: A portfolio of technologies now exists to meet the world's energy needs over the next 50 years and limit atmospheric CO2 to a trajectory that avoids a doubling of the preindustrial concentration.
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Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis.
Stefano Schiavon,Roberto Zecchin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a document, redatto, voted and pubblicato by the Ipcc -Comitato intergovernativo sui cambiamenti climatici - illustra la sintesi delle ricerche svolte su questo tema rilevante.
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Livestock's long shadow: environmental issues and options.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation, and suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.
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Emission of trace gases and aerosols from biomass burning
Meinrat O. Andreae,P. Merlet +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a set of emission factors for a large variety of species emitted from biomass fires, where data were not available, they have proposed estimates based on appropriate extrapolation techniques.
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Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies
TL;DR: A portfolio of technologies now exists to meet the world's energy needs over the next 50 years and limit atmospheric CO 2 to a trajectory that avoids a doubling of the preindustrial concentration as mentioned in this paper.
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The Chemistry of Submerged Soils
TL;DR: In this paper, the chemistry of submerged soils is discussed and the role of lake, estuarine, and ocean sediments as reservoirs of nutrients for aquatic plants and as sinks for terrestrial wastes.