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 Stories About: climate AND climate change impacts AND Colorado AND deforestation
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The high costs of doing nothing, part III
Climate change disrupts ecosystems that provide valuable services |
Joseph Romm |
16 Jan 2008 |
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| This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- If you are one of those people who loves the quiet communion of hiking in the high-country forests of Colorado, you'd better get there fast. In three years, those forests may be gone. The Rocky Mountain News reported this week that every large, mature forest of lodgepole pines in Colorado and southern Wyoming will be dead in three t ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Colorado, deforestation (all these topics) |
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