climate warming Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:29:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 CO2 Acts as Fertilizer to Amazon Forests, Climate Warming Not Dangerous https://www.greenoptimistic.com/co2-fertilizer-amazon-forest-20130207/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/co2-fertilizer-amazon-forest-20130207/#respond Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:29:15 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=32836 A study conducted by Professor Peter Cox from University of Exeter, England, published in the latest issue of Nature, reveals that the Amazon forest is not likely to disappear due to rising temperatures, because carbon dioxide in the atmosphere acts as a fertilizer. Although the high concentrations of the gas emitted through burning of fossil […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/co2-fertilizer-amazon-forest-20130207/feed/ 0 32836 Soil-Emitted Carbon Dioxide Influenced by Climate Warming https://www.greenoptimistic.com/soil-carbon-dioxide-climate-warming-20130122/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/soil-carbon-dioxide-climate-warming-20130122/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:28:35 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=31845 A study published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Climate Change, conducted by University of New Hampshire professor Serita Frey together with a team from the University of California-Davis and the Marine Biological Laboratory, concluded that increase in temperatures will lead to additional release of carbon from soils. The authors explain how soil […]

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