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Tundra test stuns scientists, 23.9.04

TheStar.com
KENNAN WARD CP Rivers wind through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Scientists say runaway warming above the Arctic tundra would speed up global climate change.

KENNAN WARD CP Rivers wind through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Scientists say runaway warming above the Arctic tundra would speed up global climate change.

Dramatic results made public today from a unique 20-year American experiment are raising the spectre of runaway warming above the Arctic tundra that would accelerate global climate change.

The findings, if confirmed with additional studies, could also doom Canada's Kyoto plan targets for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas.

This double whammy arises because U.S. researchers discovered climate warming might trigger conditions where tundra decomposition will dump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere faster than it's soaked up by accelerated plant growth.
This extra carbon dioxide could trigger a 'positive feedback,' speeding up the rate of global warming even more, warns a study published today in Nature, the influential British research journal."

_posted by Carolyn L Burke @ 9:05 a.m.
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