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face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">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."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">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.<i> General Technical Report PNW-GTR-870.</i>
Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific
Northwest Research Station. 265 p.</font><font face="Verdana"
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http://treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/42610</u></font></div>
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</b>"The growth in CO2 emissions closely follows the growth in Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) corrected for improvements in energy
efficiency."<br>
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P. Friedlingstein, et al. "Update on CO2 emissions."<br>
<i>Nature Geoscience.</i> Published online: 21 November
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">"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."<br>
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Granados et al. Climate change and the world economy: short-run
determinants of atmospheric CO2.<i> Environmental science &
policy</i> 21 (2012) 50-62</font><br>
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