[MCN] Denial or acceptance of changing fate of forests?

[Lance Olsen]

"By the end of the 21st century, forest ecosystems in the United 
States will differ from those of today as a result of changing 
climate."

Vose, James M.; Peterson, David L.; Patel-Weynand, Toral. Effects of 
climatic variability and change on forest ecosystems: a comprehensive 
science synthesis for the U.S. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-870. 
Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific 
Northwest Research Station. 265 p. 
http://treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/42610
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"The growth in CO2 emissions closely follows the growth in Gross 
Domestic Product (GDP) corrected for improvements in energy 
efficiency."

P. Friedlingstein, et al. "Update on CO2 emissions."
Nature Geoscience. Published online: 21 November 2010
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"Changes in world GDP (WGDP) have a significant effect on CO2 
concentrations, so that years of above-trend WGDP are years of 
greater rise of CO2 concentrations. Measuring WGDP in constant US 
dollars of 2000, for each trillion WGDP deviates from trend, the 
atmospheric CO2 concentration has deviated from trend, in the same 
direction, about half a part per million."

Granados et al. Climate change and the world economy: short-run 
determinants of atmospheric CO2. Environmental science & policy 21 
(2012) 50-62






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