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Journal Article
Land Use and Climate Change
2005
Overview
Change and variability in land use by humans and the resulting alterations in surface features are major but poorly recognized drivers of long-term global climate patterns. Along with the diverse influences of aerosols on climate, these spatially heterogeneous land use effects may be at least as important in altering the weather as changes in climate patterns associated with greenhouse gases. On page 1674 of this issue, Feddema et al. report modeling results indicating that future land use and land cover will continue to be an important influence on climate for the next century. One implication of this work is that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has yet to appreciate the significance of the full range of phenomena that drive climate change, risks rapidly falling behind the evolving science if this effect is not included. Although the impact of land use and land cover on the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide and methane, and on the global average surface albedo, have been included in international climate change assessments, the role of land use and land cover change and variability in altering regional temperatures, precipitation, vegetation, and other climate variables has been mostly ignored.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science,The American Association for the Advancement of Science
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