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The desertification-global warming feedback loop
Desertification amplifies climate change, and vice versa |
Joseph Romm |
13 Sep 2007 |
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| Here is yet another carbon-cycle amplifying feedback not in most climate models. On the one hand, the United Nations' top climate official, Yvo de Boer, announced that: Climate change has become the prime cause of an accelerating spread of deserts which threatens the world's drylands. On the other hand, he pointed out that desertification would, in turn, accelerate climate change: You'll see a sort of feedback mechanism ... quite a lot of carbon is captured in ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, desertification (all these topics) |
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