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Crop Breeding for High Production, Water Use Efficiency & Albedo
Publish: Tue 02 Sep 2014 - 8:06 PM
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It's a good way to confront mankind's growing need for food and the water needed to produce it, while simultaneously hedging our bets on what many believe to be CO2-induced global warming.
Biospheric Productivity (Global: The Recent Past) -- Summary
Publish: Tue 02 Sep 2014 - 8:06 PM
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Since 1980 the Earth has weathered three of the warmest decades in the instrumental temperature record, a handful of intense and persistent El Niño events, large-scale deforestation, "unprecedented" forest fires, and the eruption of several volcanoes. Concurrently, the air's CO2 content increased by 16%, while human population grew by 55%. It was a bad time for the biosphere. Or was it?
Are they few and far-between? ... or are they growing ever more frequent ... and ferocious?
How well are the latest versions of today's best climate models performing in this regard?
Rapid Evolution of Reproductive Traits in Response to Warming
Publish: Tue 02 Sep 2014 - 8:04 PM
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One can learn a lot from a guppy.