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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Seeing it coming in 2010:
(emphasis added)</b></font><br>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">"Š studies compiled here
suggest that at least some of the world's forested ecosystems already
may be responding to climate change and raise concern that forests may
become increasingly vulnerable to<i><b> higher background tree
mortality rates and die-off</b></i> in response to future warming and
drought,</font></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#000000"><i><b>even in environments that
are not normally considered water-limited.</b></i> Š. Overall, our
review reveals the potential for amplified tree mortality due to
drought and heat in forests worldwide."<br>
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Craig D. Allen, Alison K. Macalady, Haroun Chenchouni, Dominique
Bachelet et al. A global overview of drought and heat-induced
tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests.<i>
Forest Ecology and Management</i> 259<b> (2010)</b> 660-684
doi:</font><font size="-1"
color="#000054">10.1016/j.foreco.2009.09.001</font><br>
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<div><font size="-1"><b>Reporting its arrival in 2015:<font
color="#000000"> (emphasis added)</font></b></font><br>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000"><i><b>"</b></i></font><font
size="-1" color="#141413"><i><b>Our results are quite striking. First,
temporal increases of climate change-associated mortality do not occur
only in regions with temporal water deficit increases, but also in
areas without temporal water deficit increases.</b></i> Given that
temporal water deficit increases are not a global phenomenon
(Sheffield et al. 2012; Dai 2013),<i><b> our results call for more
studies to examine the impacts of recent climate changes on forest
dynamics beyond those regions with temporal water deficit
increases</b></i> (Breshears et al. 2005, 2009; van Mantgem et al.
2009; Michaelian et al. 2011; Peng et al. 2011; Luo & Chen 2013;
Williams et al. 2013). Second, our results reveal that climate change
may intensify the effects of conspecific competition, while reducing
the effects of interspecific competition on tree mortality for
shade-intolerant tree species. If water availability does not change
in these forests, although some projections suggest it may (Cook et
al. 2014), this could potentially lead to a positive effect on species
coexistence, since higher conspecific competition, rather than
interspecific competition, constitutes a primary mechanism for species
coexistence in forest ecosystems (Condit et al. 2006; Comita et al.
2010). However, the temporal increases in both mortality and growth
could lead to faster carbon pool turnover and less carbon storage in
the boreal forests, as indicated in tropical forests (Brienen et al.
2015)."<br>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#141413">Yong Luo and Han Y. H. Chen.
Climate change-associated tree mortality increases without decreasing
water availability.<i> Ecology Letters</i>,<b> (2015)</b><x-tab>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"We have only one
planet and the time has come to transform our present lifestyle and
consumption patterns in order to halt the degradation of the Earth's
natural capital ..."<br>
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From the Executive Summary, WWF: <i> China Ecological Footprint:
Report 2012 : Consumption, production, and
sustainability.</i></font></div>
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</font><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"Š energy
consumption in 1960 was about half what it is now [i.e., 1970] Š.
Surely we had a civilized country then, with roads, electricity,
entertainment, and so on. Š. Have we, by doubling our energy
consumption, doubled our happiness?"<br>
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Kimon Valaskakis, Peter S. Sindell, J. Graham Smith, and Iris
Fitzpatrick-Martin.<i> The Conserver Society.</i> 1970. Harper &
Row.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">"The most
painful and expensive way to deal with global climate change will be
to ignore it until something happens that elicits powerful public
demands for immediate and Draconian action."<br>
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Jonathan Lash. "As the earth heats up. " <i> Journal of
Commerce</i> August 16, 1996.</font><br>
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