Carbon dioxide and drought (Science Daily)

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1999-12 : Bansang (The Gambia) - Local people clearing the savannah vegetation to prepare an area for a large community garden (Photo Luc DE COCK)

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324153504.htm

Cutting Carbon Dioxide Could Help Prevent Droughts, New Research Shows

ScienceDaily (Mar. 25, 2011) — Recent climate modeling has shown that reducing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would give Earth a wetter climate in the short term. New research from Carnegie Global Ecology scientists Long Cao and Ken Caldeira offers a novel explanation for why climates are wetter when atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations are decreasing. Their findings, published online March 24 by Geophysical Research Letters, show that cutting carbon dioxide concentrations could help prevent droughts caused by global warming.

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About Willem Van Cotthem

Honorary Professor of Botany, University of Ghent (Belgium). Scientific Consultant for Desertification and Sustainable Development.
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