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Agriculture's Role in Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Capture
Description: How agriculture adds to and mitigates greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. (Aug. 2010)
Publication Date: Aug 11, 2010
Topics: Agriculture / Greenhouse gas (GHG) increases / Greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction, mitigation /

Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia
Description: "Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth's climate. Because carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the E
Source: National Academies
Publication Date: Jul 16, 2010
Topics: Agriculture / Greenhouse gas (GHG) increases / Sea level rise / Temperature / Water supply, changes in supply, snowpack / Wildfires /

Climate Change Indicators in the United States
Description: "Collecting and interpreting environmental indicators play a critical role in our understanding of climate change and its causes. An indicator represents the state of certain environmental conditions over a given area and a specified period of time. Examp
Source: United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Publication Date: Apr 27, 2010
Topics: Drought / Greenhouse gas (GHG) increases / Rain, precipitation, flooding / Sea and Polar ice / Sea level rise / Temperature / Threatened species, habitat, ecology / Water supply, changes in supply, snowpack /

U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Description: Annual "inventory of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and sinks" from 1990 to the present.
Source: United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Publication Date: Apr 15, 2010
Topics: Greenhouse gas (GHG) increases / Greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction, mitigation /

Fifth Climate Action Report to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Description: Report by the U.S. government on climate change efforts.
Source: United States.
Publication Date: Apr 8, 2010
Topics: Adaptation / Greenhouse gas (GHG) increases / Greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction, mitigation /

Earth system sensitivity inferred from Pliocene modelling and data
Description: Examining climate evdience from 3 million years ago led researchers to conclude that carbon dioxide's effects on temperature increase are 30-50 percent stronger than previously estimated. (Lunt, D. J., et al., 2009, Nature Geoscience)
Publication Date: Dec 6, 2009
Topics: Greenhouse gas (GHG) increases / Research / Temperature /

Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2008
Description: (U.S. Energy Information Administration)
Publication Date: Dec 3, 2009
Topics: Greenhouse gas (GHG) increases / Greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction, mitigation /

Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science
Description: Concludes that climate change is happening faster than was reported by the IPCC in 2007.
Publication Date: Nov 24, 2009
Topics: Global issues, human impacts / Greenhouse gas (GHG) increases / Sea and Polar ice / Sea level rise / Temperature /

Future Is Now: Climate Change Mitigation, Impacts, and Adaptation Research
Description: Papers from the 6th annual California Climate Change Research Symposium, Sept. 2009. Among the topics: impact studies, observed climate change impacts, regional climate projections, energy technologies, aerosol and regional climate, greenhouse gas invent
Source: California.
Publication Date: Sep 10, 2009
Topics: Adaptation / California, Bay-Delta, local issues / Clouds, aerosols, air pollution, ozone, humidity / Economic aspects, Costs, Risks / Greenhouse gas (GHG) increases / Renewable energy / Sea level rise / Water supply, changes in supply, snowpack /

Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions: Synthesis Report
Description: Report from the meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, in March 2009.
Publication Date: Jun 18, 2009
Topics: Adaptation / Economic aspects, Costs, Risks / Global issues, human impacts / Greenhouse gas (GHG) increases / Sea and Polar ice / Temperature /

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