1-5: Carbon Cycle, Methane

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Atmospheric Concentrations of Methane Leveling Off
  
  
• Corporations Turn Green in Anticipation of Government Regulation
  
  
• Global Warming Causes Soil to Give Up Carbon
  
  
• The Carbon Dioxide Cost of Traveling
  
  
• Global Warming Affects Plankton Distribution in the Atlantic Ocean
  
  
• Fertilization of Arctic Soils Produces a Positive Feedback to Global Warming
  
  
• Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Budget for the Anthropocene (1800 to 1994) and for the Period 1980 to 1999
  
  
• Is Sudden Warming at the Beginning of the Eocene an Analog for Current Global Warming?
  
  
• Where Has All the Carbon Gone?
  
  
• Bloom Doesn't Last Long
  
  
• Ocean Fertilization with Iron Leads to Long-Lasting Blooms
  
  
• Contributions of Fires to Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels
  
  
• Amazonian Rainforests, Even Undisturbed by Humans, are Undergoing Change.
  
  
• Amazon Fires Cause Changes in Cloud Droplet Formation and Stratospheric Water and Particulate Levels
  
  
• Leaves Fall Off and Decay, but What do Roots do?
  
  
• Nitrogen for Enhanced Biosphere Uptake of CO₂
  
  
• Oceans Become More Acidic as Atmospheric CO₂ Increases
  
  
• Update on Ocean Fertilization to Absorb CO₂
  
  
• Increased CO₂ and Increased Temperature: Which Came First?
  
  
• Role of the North Atlantic Oscillation due to Carbon Uptake by the North Atlantic Ocean
  
  
• Solid Methane on the Ocean Floor
  
  
• Impact on Plants caused by Multiple Global Changes
  
  
• Impact on Grasslands of Changes in Rainfall Variability
  
  
• Loss of Soil Carbon in a Warmer Climate
  
  
• Contribution of Major Wildfires to Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
  
  
• Methane Hydrate for Fuel
  
  
• Carbon Cycle Update
  
  
• Amazonian Rivers as a Source of Carbon Dioxide
  
  
• Fertilizing the Ocean with Iron Proponents.
  
  
• Global warming is here and we need to do something about it
  
  
• Engineering Solution to Reducing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Raises Serious Environmental Problems
  
  
• Burying CO₂ in the Deep Ocean
  
  
• Global Warming slows vegetative decay
  
  
• Global Warming Increases Loss of Peat from Peatlands
  
  
• Carbon Dioxide Variations have a Key Role in Creating Ice Ages
  
  
• Kyoto Protocol Requirements
  
  
• How Much Carbon Could They Hold?
  
  
• Ocean Sequestration of CO₂
  
  
• Large Sink for Atmospheric Carbon in North America
  
  
• Long-term agroecosystem experiments
  
  

Websites

• Emission Cuts 'Vital' for Oceans
  
  
• The Cost of US Forest-based Carbon Sequestration (PDF File)
  
  
• UK to Pump Greenhouse Gas Under Sea
  
  
• Current Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
  
  
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• The Carbon Cycle
  
  
• Carbon Cycle
  
  
• One gallon of gasoline requires 98 tons of buried prehistoric plant material
  
  
• Carbon Sequestration R&D Overview
  
  
• Novel Sequestration Concepts
  
  
• Terrestrial Sequestration Research
  
  
• Ocean Sequestration Research
  
  
• Geologic Sequestration Research
  
  
• Carbon Capture Research
  
  
• The Climate Conditions during the Triassic Period
  
  
• The North American Carbon Program Plan (NACP)
  
  
• Depositing Carbon in the Soil Bank
  
  
• CO₂ Concentrations in the Atmosphere
  
  
• The Debate on Whether CO₂ Consuming Trees Should Provide Credits Aginst the Amount of Greenhouse Gases Countries are Allowed to Emit.
  
  
• Global atmospheric concentration of CO₂.
  
  
• CO₂ emissions from industrial processes
  
  
• CO₂ emissions from land use change
  
  
• The present carbon cycle
  
  
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  
  
• An Elementary Discussion of Ocean Carbon. (From Sea WiFS: Studying Ocean Color From Space).
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Greenhouse Gases and Global Climate Change.
  
  
• Saline Aquifer CO₂ storage (SACS)
  
  
• The Biology Department at Whitman College.
  
  
• Glossary: Carbon Dioxide and Climate
  
  
• Methane is a Potent Greenhouse Gas (From EPA)
  
  

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• Elderfield, H., 2002: Carbonic mysteries. Science, 296, 1618-1621.
  
  
• Retallack, G. J., 2001: A 300-million-year record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil plant cuticles. Nature, 411, 287-290.
  
  
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• Falkowski, P., et al, 2001: The global carbon cycle: A test of our knowledge of earth as a system. Science, 290, 291-296.
  
  
• Knapp, A. K., and M. D. Smith, 2001: Variation among biomes in temporal dynamics of aboveground primary production. Science, 291, 481-484.
  
  
• Pacala, S. W. et al., 2001: Consistent land- and atmosphere-based U.S. carbon sink estimates. Science, 292, 2316-2320.
  
  
• Fang, J. A. Chen, C. Peng, X. Zhao, and L. Ci, 2001: Changes in forest biomass carbon storage in China between 1949 and 1998. Science, 292, 2320-2322.
  
  
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• Kaiser, J., 2000: Soaking up carbon in forests and fields. Science, 290, 922.
  
  
• Bousquet, P., P. Peylin, P. Ciais, C. Le Quere, P. Friedlingstein, and P. P. Tans, 2000: Regional changes in carbon dioxide fluxes of land and oceans since 1980. Science, 290, 1342-1346.
  
  
• Caspersen, J. P., S. W. Pacala. J. C. Jenkins, G. C. Hurtt, P. R. Moorcroft, and R. A. Birdsey, 2000: Contributions of land-use history to carbon accumulation in U.S. forests. Science, 290, 1148-1151.
  
  
• Cox, P. M.,R. A. Betts, C. D. Jones, S. A. Spall, and I. J. Totterdell, 2000: Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model. Nature, 408, 184-187.
  
  
• Betts, R. A., 2000: Offset of the potential carbon sink from boreal forestation by decreases in surface albedo. Nature, 408, 187-190.
  
  
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• Caldeira, K., and P. B. Duffy, 2000: The role of the southern ocean in uptake and storage of anthropogenic carbon dioxide. Science, 287, 620-622.
  
  
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