Are the impacts of land use on warming underestimated in climate policy?

Are the impacts of land use on warming underestimated in climate policy?

While carbon dioxide emissions from energy use must be the primary target of climate change mitigation efforts, land use and land cover change (LULCC) also represent an important source of climate forcing. In this study we compute time series of global surface temperature change separately for LULCC...

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Main Authors: Natalie M Mahowald, Daniel S Ward, Scott C Doney, Peter G Hess, James T Randerson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2017-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
land use
climate change
agriculture
deforestation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa836d

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