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SUBMITTER: Keller DP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3948393 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Keller David P DP Feng Ellias Y EY Oschlies Andreas A
Nature communications 20140225
The realization that mitigation efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions have, until now, been relatively ineffective has led to an increasing interest in climate engineering as a possible means of preventing the potentially catastrophic consequences of climate change. While many studies have addressed the potential effectiveness of individual methods there have been few attempts to compare them. Here we use an Earth system model to compare the effectiveness and side effects of afforestation, ...[more]