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Fig. 2. Temperature increase for the United States as forecast by the climate models considered for inclusion in the United States National Assessment Note Notice that the Canadian Climate Model (CGCM1, heavy black line) produces the most extreme temperature rise.

In addition to climatic processes, other interactions, such as transpiration through the leaf stomata, will also affect water overall isotopic ratio, enriching with regard to the heavier isotopomer. Therefore, it can be seen how the combination of climate, topography, and plant physiology can all contribute to the isotopic profile of both the H and the O available for inclusion into plant material. 

Abstract Seawater concentrations of the climatecooling, volatile sulphur compound dimethylsulphide (DMS) are the result of numerous production and consumption processes within the marine ecosystem. Due to this complex nature, it is difficult to predict temporal and geographical distribution patterns of DMS concentrations and the inclusion of DMS into global ocean climate models has only been attempted recently. Comparisons between individual model predictions, and ground-truthing exercises revealed that information on the functional... 

Jacobson MZ (2006) Effects of absorption by soot inclusions within clouds and precipitation on global climate. J Phys Chem A 110 6860-6873... 

Jacobson MZ, Kaufmann YJ, Rudich Y (2007) Examining feedbacks of aerosols to urban climate with a model that treats 3-D clouds with aerosol inclusions. J Geophys Res 112 D24205. doi 10.1029/2007JD008922... 

Secondly I think one has to look very carefully at transport phenomena. Several speakers in this Study Week have referred to the effect of the introduction of tall stacks which permit an increased dilution of emissions from power plants. The inclusion of a tall stack at a power plant does not cut the deposition in the vicinity of that stack — and you can use the term vicinity in any way you like — to zero and the deposition at a distance of 500 kilometers to 100%. A very substantial fraction of the deposition associated with emission from a particular source, even with the tall stack, occurs relatively near to that source and again, the question of how near is one, that is extremely difficult to get solid answers for — one simply does not have that kind of information. If you want to take an applied mathematician and send him into shock, you ask him to model the flow from a tall smokestack over a distance of about ten or twenty kilometers — that is just something that is not done. The overall transport phenomenon in acid rain is an extraordinarily complex multi-scale phenomenon. So far as the chemistry is concerned, I think that, too, varies dramatically with the climate, with the season, with the presence of oxidants of various types in the atmosphere, and I fear that there can be no single generalization concerning acid rain and the mitigation of acid deposition worldwide. This is something that has to be handled on a scale which in fact I think will be much smaller. 

Also for zinc dose-response functions obtained in the temperate climatic zone show the dominating influence of SO on inland sites. The inclusion of time of wetness in the linear model did not further significantly improve the correlation. The following dose-response functions have been obtained in the previously mentioned investigation (FIG. 2) ... 

Stavins and Richards (2005) find that biologic carbon sequestration is also a cost-effective strategy that could be part of a climate mitigation regime. In cases where it may be difficult to measure total mass emissions from these sources but relatively easy to measure emission reductions (e.g., reductions of methane from a landfill) these sources might be captured with project-level offset provisions rather than through inclusion in the cap-and-trade program (U.S. EPA 2003). 

Globally, wetlands can be found in all climates, from tropical to tundra, with the exception of Antarctica. Approximately 6% of Earth s land surface, which equals about 2 billion acres (approximately 800 million ha), is covered by wetlands. The United States alone contains about 14% of the world s wetlands, or about 274 million acres (111 million ha). The Convention on Wetlands, signed in Ramsar, Iran, in 1971, is an intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources. There are presently 158 contracting parties to the convention, with 1723 wetland sites, totaling 160 million ha, designated for inclusion in the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance (http //www.ramsar.org/). 

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