New Content on CO2 Science http://www.co2science.org Summary of new material published weekly on CO2 Science Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:06:38 GMT ListGarden Program 1.3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Crop Breeding for High Production, Water Use Efficiency & Albedo http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N36/EDIT.php It's a good way to confront mankind's growing need for food and the water needed to produce it, while simultaneously hedging our bets on what many believe to be CO2-induced global warming. Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:06:35 GMT http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N36/EDIT.php Biospheric Productivity (Global: The Recent Past) -- Summary http://www.co2science.org/subject/b/summaries/bioproductivity.php Since 1980 the Earth has weathered three of the warmest decades in the instrumental temperature record, a handful of intense and persistent El Niño events, large-scale deforestation, "unprecedented" forest fires, and the eruption of several volcanoes. Concurrently, the air's CO2 content increased by 16%, while human population grew by 55%. It was a bad time for the biosphere. Or was it? Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:06:03 GMT http://www.co2science.org/subject/b/summaries/bioproductivity.php Catastrophic Floods of Dartmoor, South West England http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N36/C1.php Are they few and far-between? ... or are they growing ever more frequent ... and ferocious? Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:05:41 GMT http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N36/C1.php Simulating the East Asian Summer Monsoon http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N36/C2.php How well are the latest versions of today's best climate models performing in this regard? Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:05:19 GMT http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N36/C2.php Rapid Evolution of Reproductive Traits in Response to Warming http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N36/C3.php One can learn a lot from a guppy. Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:04:57 GMT http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N36/C3.php A Quarter-Century of Carbon Sequestration in Global Grasslands http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N36/B1.php Has it been increasing, decreasing or staying about the same? Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:04:34 GMT http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N36/B1.php Semi-Arid Ecosystems: Their Impact on the Global Carbon Cycle http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N36/B2.php Is it negligible, modest or outrageously powerful? Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:04:10 GMT http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N36/B2.php Diffusion Boundary Layers Around Calcifying Marine Organisms http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N36/B3.php A recent study demonstrates how they may ameliorate the negative effects of ocean acidification. Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:03:48 GMT http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N36/B3.php Plant Growth Database http://www.co2science.org/data/plant_growth/photo/s/sargassumm.php Our latest result of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature is for Japanese Wireweed (Longphuirt et al., 2013). Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:01:01 GMT http://www.co2science.org/data/plant_growth/photo/s/sargassumm.php