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How Camest Thou in This Pickle?
Pages 23-32

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From page 23...
... I believe developed nations should lead by example by reducing their CO2 emissions and promoting sensible programs to sequester carbon. I also believe developed countries should share carbon-efficient energy-generating technologies with developing countries as rapidly as possible.
From page 24...
... Developed countries must also share carbon-efficient, energy-generating technologies with the developing world as soon as possible because developing nations with rapidly growing economies, such as China, are making capital investments now in power plants with lifetimes of at least several decades. It is in everyone's interest that these power plants be as carbon efficient as possible.
From page 25...
... _ Q Q N 25 CO2 Concentrations and Temperature Change FIGURE 1 Records of surface temperatures, CO2 concentrations, and carbon emissions in the Northern Hemisphere. Surface Temperatures: Reconstruction of annual average surface air temperatures derived from historical records, tree rings, and corals (until about 1900)
From page 26...
... much larger carbon storehouse, contains about 38,000 billion metric tons of carbon, most of it in deep waters (Schlesinger, 19971. In the past decade scientists and engineers have been exploring ways to increase carbon storage in both land and ocean ecosystems.
From page 27...
... This scheme is based on the observation that in the Southern Ocean a lack of available iron in sunlit surface waters limits the growth of phytoplankton microscopic ocean plants that form the basis of the marine food web. Using sunlight and dissolved nutrients, phytoplankton convert CO2 to organically bound carbon.
From page 28...
... In the past century, most of the nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus mobilization has occurred in North America and Europe (Galloway et al., 1998~. In the last few decades, however, Asia, which has more than half of the world population and many of the most rapidly growing economies, has substantially affected the global cycles of nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus (Figure 4~.
From page 30...
... Finally, loading freshwater ecosystems with phosphorus can lead to a chain of events that includes increases in aquatic plant productivity, reductions in oxygen levels in the water column, and ultimately reductions in habitat quality for aquatic animals, including fish. The rapid increase in carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus mobilization observed by Asia is expected to continue.
From page 31...
... Pp. 1-17 in Asian Change in the Context of Global Climate Change: Impact of Natural and Anthropogenic Changes in Asia on Global Biogeochemical Cycles, J.N.


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