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(NAS Colloquium) Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change (1997) / Chapter Skim
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... This residual term is commonly referred to as the "missing carbon sink." It must be located and the uncertainty in the other individual terms in the global carbon cycle must be reduced if the extent of human impact on the carbon cycle is to be assessed reliably. Furthermore, a feedback mechanism exists whereby climate change may itself alter the carbon cycle.
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... the extent to which climate is changing owing to both natural causes and human activities, (`ii) whether these changes, in part, are long-term manifestations of increasing carbon dioxide, and (
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  • increasing carbon
  • climatic change
  • roger revelle
  • environmental change
  • introduction charles

  • carbon cycle


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