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If you decide to use
one of the topics below, please let me know of your choice.
(e-mail is best, or by phone, written, or
just tell me in class)
New CO2
science posted at
http://www.co2science.org.
Temperature Record of the
Week
(http://www.co2science.org/ushcn/stationoftheweek.htm).
Subject Index Section
Summary: Droughts
(http://www.co2science.org/subject/summaries/drought.htm).
Subject Index Section
Summary: Floods
(http://www.co2science.org/subject/summaries/floods.htm).
Subject Index Section
Summary: Microorganisms
(http://www.co2science.org/subject/summaries/microorganisms.htm).
Rising Atmospheric CO2
Concentrations Reduce Soil Erosion: Lessons for the
New Millennium
Summary: Real world observations of soil
erosion trends in the United States
reveal the beneficent impacts of the
historical rise in the air's CO2
concentration on the nation's incalculably
valuable soil and water
resources, vindicating an experimentally
inspired prediction made many years
ago by our father and providing an
important perspective from which to view
model based predictions of impending (or
current, as some claim)
catastrophic global warming
(http://www.co2science.org/edit/v3_edit/v3n25edit.htm).
A Hot Time in the
Medieval Warm Period in Africa
Summary: A high-quality temperature record
obtained from a well-dated
stalagmite found in a cave in South Africa
reveals the Little Ice Age in
that part of the world to have been about
1°C cooler than present, while the
warmest part of the Medieval Warm Period
was as much as 3-4°C warmer than
present. This record is
characteristic of many others that reveal these
well-known global climatic regimes to have
been of much greater significance
than certain modern climate
reconstructionists would have us believe
(http://www.co2science.org/journal/2000/v3n25c1.htm).
A Five-Century Rainfall
Record for the Canadian High Arctic
Summary: A 487-year record of rainfall
derived from analyses of varved
sediments in a Canadian High Arctic lake
reveals precipitation to have been
more variable and extreme during the
coldest parts of the Little Ice Age,
contradicting the claims of climate
alarmists that the warming that brought
the planet out of this cool climatic
excursion should be bringing more
variable and extreme weather our way
(http://www.co2science.org/journal/2000/v3n25c2.htm).
Elevated CO2
Protects Photosynthesis at High Temperatures
Summary: Elevated CO2
increased the thermal tolerance of 15 out of 16 plant
species experiencing acute exposure to
normally deleterious high
temperatures, indicating that when the
air's CO2 content rises, most plants
like
it hot (http://www.co2science.org/journal/2000/v3n25b1.htm).
The Effects of Elevated
CO2 on Secondary Carbon Compounds in Pine
Summary: Atmospheric CO2
enrichment increased the concentrations of
phenolics in both above- and belowground
organs of loblolly pine seedlings
(http://www.co2science.org/journal/2000/v3n25b2.htm).
Effect of Elevated CO2
and Temperature on Rice
Summary: Elevated CO2
significantly increased rice grain yield at ambient
air temperatures, while it had no effect on
yield at air temperatures 4°C
above
ambient (http://www.co2science.org/journal/2000/v3n25b3.htm).
Desertification
Summary:
A review of the recent literature shows no widespread
desertification
has occurred in the African Sahel for the past several
decades,
due in large part to the beneficial effects of the ongoing rise in
the
air's CO2 content
(http://www.co2science.org/subject/d/summaries/desertification.htm)
More to come....
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