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<div><font face="Cambria">Funk & Wagnalls<br>
NEW STANDARD DICTIONARY of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE<br>
1938. By arrangement with Collier, a publisher</font><br>
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<div><font face="Cambria">"Climate.<i><b> n</b>.</i><b> 1.</b> The
sum total of the atmospheric conditions of a locality,<b> esp.</b>
affecting health and comfort: the average weather of a place or
region, as regards temperature, moisture, and prevailing winds: as, a
hot climate, a rigorous climate.<b> 2.</b> A region of the earth,
especially one considered in relation to its temperature, moisture,
etc: a clime: as we live in a capricious or rigorous climate. <b>
3.</b> [Archaic] In early geography, a zone of the earth's surface
comprised between two specified latitudes: the original meaning. The
old geographers reckoned 7 climates; the later ones 24, from the
equator to either of the polar circles, each representing an increase
of half hour in the length of the longest day. At the present day the
earth is divided into various irregular regions, each differing as to
temperature, rainfall, moisture, pressure, the inclination of the sun,
and the amount of cloudiness. "</font><br>
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"</font><font 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. Š. For example,
wildfires, insect infestations, pulses of erosion and flooding, and
drought-induced tree mortality are all expected to increase during the
21st century."<br>
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Vose, James M.; Peterson, David L.; Patel-Weynand, Toral. 2012.
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
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color="#000000">"Conservationists must therefore assess both
current and future distributions of species. .... One critical
question is whether models Š can Š provide robust predictions of
future distributions under climate change."<br>
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Miguel B. Araújo and Carsten Rahbek.<br>
"How Does Climate Change Affect Biodiversity?"</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000"><i>Science</i>,
Vol. 313, September 8, 2006</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">" Š. the
earth's atmosphere is so thoroughly mixed and so rapidly recycled
through the biosphere that the next breath you inhale will contain
atoms exhaled by Jesus at Gethsemane and Adolf Hitler at
Munich."<br>
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Preston Cloud and Aharon Gibor. "The Oxygen Cycle."<br>
Scientific American, September 1970</font><br>
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