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A 1999 study by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology predicts that tropical rain forests will be able to continue to absorb carbon dioxide at the current rate of 2 billion tons per year until global temperatures rise by 8°F (4.5°C). At this point, evaporation rates will be high enough to decrease rainfall for the forests, leading to the collapse of tropical ecosystems. This collapse will decrease the amount of carbon... 

In addition to biogeochemical cycles (discussed in Section 6.5), the hydrosphere is a major component of many physical cycles, with climate among the most prominent. Water affects the solar radiation budget through albedo (primarily clouds and ice/snow), the terrestrial radiation budget as a strong absorber of terrestrial emissions, and global temperature distribution as the primary transporter of heat in the ocean and atmosphere. 

Jones, P. D. (1988). The influence of ENSO on global temperatures, Clim. Monitor 17,80-89. 

Carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases (e.g., methane) and their effect on global temperature DDT... 

A rise in average temperature of 1 °C may not seem enough to cause dramatic shifts in the weather, but the historical record shows otherwise. The period from 1500 to 1850 is called the Little Ice Age, because there were extensive increases in the sizes of the glaciers in all alpine regions. During that period, the average global temperature was just 0.5 °C lower than in 1900. 

It has been pointed out that the decline in global temperatures from middle Miocene to Quaternary may have been related to the increased rates of silica weathering in the Himalayas, development of ice sheets, and corresponding increase in albedo,... 

The change in temperature near the Japanese Islands mentioned above seems to be consistent with the global temperature change (Ogasawara, 1994), as well as with changes... 

It is relevant and, of course, not out of context to touch briefly on the technologies used for the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from many origins, including several examples referred to in the present text. The up-swing in global temperature over the previous... 

Consequently, the net OLR has increased by 0.006 W m-2 since 1880. This means that about one-third of today s thermal pollution (0.02 W m-2) is emitted from Earth. In the long term our use of non-renewable energy will cause a global temperature increase up to a point where the net OLR balances the net heat generation. Meanwhile, nature has some means of delaying global warming. 

Figure 11. Calculated global temperature increase (ocean, land and mean) today and in the future (at thermal equilibrium)...

The future steady-state global temperature was estimated by assuming that continued warming follows the same pattern as during the last century. This means that the previous LAT/SST increase ratio of 2.4 was assumed constant. Therefore, the land area temperature increase was assumed a factor 2.4 greater than the sea surface temperature increase. Today s consumption of non-renewable energy was also assumed unchanged. 

Lack of reliable measurement is the first reason, as reliable ground-based measurements by scientific instruments have been made just in this century. These measure conditions only at the location of each instrument, and they are usually land-based, although 75% of the Earth is covered with water. We have been able to take precise, direct measurements only in the last four decades, and not until the advent of precision space borne instruments in the 1970s were we able to measure global temperatures at a range of altitudes across the entire atmosphere. 

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