DOCSLIB.ORG

Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the Nited States

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the Nited States Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States Committee on Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States, National Research Council ISBN: 0-309-11360-1, 86 pages, 7 x 10, (2007) This free PDF was downloaded from: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12039.html Visit the National Academies Press online, the authoritative source for all books from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council: • Download hundreds of free books in PDF • Read thousands of books online for free • Purchase printed books and PDF files • Explore our innovative research tools – try the Research Dashboard now • Sign up to be notified when new books are published Thank you for downloading this free PDF. If you have comments, questions or want more information about the books published by the National Academies Press, you may contact our customer service department toll-free at 888-624-8373, visit us online, or send an email to [email protected]. This book plus thousands more are available at www.nap.edu. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF file are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Distribution or copying is strictly prohibited without permission of the National Academies Press <http://www.nap.edu/permissions/>. Permission is granted for this material to be posted on a secure password-protected Web site. The content may not be posted on a public Web site. Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12039.html PREPUBLICATION COPY Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States Committee on Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States Water Science and Technology Board Division on Earth and Life Studies THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS Washington, D.C. www.nap.edu PREPUBLICATION COPY Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12039.html THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS 500 Fifth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20001 NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the panel responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance. Support for this study was provided by the McKnight Foundation under Grant No. 06-1201, Energy Foundation under Grant No. G-0611-08651, National Science Foundation under Grant No. CBET- 0716901, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under Order No. EP07C000287, and the National Research Council Day Fund. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the project. International Standard Book Number X-XXX-XXXXX-X Library of Congress Catalog Card Number XX-XXXXX Additional copies of this report are available from the National Academies Press, 500 5th Street, N.W., Lockbox 285, Washington, DC 20055; (800) 624-6242 or (202) 334-3313 (in the Washington metropolitan area); Internet, http://www.nap.edu. Copyright 2007 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. PREPUBLICATION COPY Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12039.html The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matters. Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone is president of the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. It is autonomous in its administration and in the selection of its members, sharing with the National Academy of Sciences the responsibility for advising the federal government. The National Academy of Engineering also sponsors engineering programs aimed at meeting national needs, encourages education and research, and recognizes the superior achievements of engineers. Dr. Charles M. Vest is president of the National Academy of Engineering. The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the National Academy of Sciences by its congressional charter to be an adviser to the federal government and, upon its own initiative, to identify issues of medical care, research, and education. Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg is president of the Institute of Medicine. The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy’s purposes of furthering knowledge and advising the federal government. Functioning in accordance with general policies determined by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone and Dr. Charles M. Vest are chair and vice chair, respectively, of the National Research Council. www.national-academies.org PREPUBLICATION COPY Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12039.html PREPUBLICATION COPY Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12039.html COMMITTEE ON WATER IMPLICATIONS OF BIOFUELS PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES JERALD L. SCHNOOR, Chair, University of Iowa, Iowa City OTTO C. DOERING III, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana DARA ENTEKHABI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge EDWARD A. HILER, Texas A&M University, College Station THEODORE L. HULLAR, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York G. DAVID TILMAN, University of Minnesota, St. Paul NRC Staff WILLIAM S. LOGAN, Study Director NANCY HUDDLESTON, Senior Communications Officer MICHAEL J. STOEVER, Senior Program Assistant v PREPUBLICATION COPY Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12039.html PREPUBLICATION COPY Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12039.html Acknowledgments This report is the result of a process in which many people and organizations participated. The matter of biofuel development and implications to water resources was raised as an emerging issue of significant concern by the Water Science and Technology Board (WSTB) in 2006. Members of the board (Appendix B), working with WSTB staff and prospective sponsors, determined the approach to address this issue, crafted the task statement, identified candidates for the steering committee, and provided other general oversight. The steering committee (see listing in front matter and biographies in Appendix C) organized and hosted the colloquium and wrote this report. Fifteen individuals gave much time to prepare and make presentations and discussions (see colloquium agenda in Appendix A and biographical sketches in Appendix D) at the colloquium, thus providing a rich basis for deliberations at the colloquium itself by the 130 individuals present (too numerous to list) and by the steering committee following the event as it deliberated its way to consensus on the content of this report. This project was sponsored by the McKnight Foundation, Energy Foundation, National Science Foundation, National Research Council (NRC) Fund, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the NRC’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report: Mary Jo Baedecker, U.S. Geological Survey (emeritus); Paul Bertsch, Savannah River Ecology Lab; Christopher
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Viability: a Priority Criterion for the Mitigation of Climate Change and Other Complex Socio-Ecological Issues
    ARTICLE .77 Viability: A Priority Criterion for the Mitigation of Climate Change and other Complex Socio-Ecological Issues Graeme Taylor Griffith University Australia At present many researchers are exploring ways to improve the resilience of the global system, prevent catastrophic failure, and support the transition to a sustainable global system. This paper makes two interlinked proposals for developing better—and more credible—tools for modeling critical global issues and identifying and managing threats. First, proven risk management methods from other fields can be usefully applied to the assessment and mitigation of large, complex socio- ecological problems. Second, using viability as the priority criterion for the design of our models will not only highlight systemic threats, but also help us develop constructive interventions. socio-ecological, risk management, viability, modeling, non-linear, systems, safety, critical, causal diagrams, Bayesian networks The need for new models and methods Critical global problems like climate change, growing shortages of essential resources (such as water, food, energy and critical minerals) and the loss of biodiversity are getting worse. Many experts (Bierbaum et al., 2007) believe that humanity’s greatest challenge is to find ways to keep these problems from becoming catastrophic. Attention is increasingly focusing on risk assessment and management. Christopher Field, co-chair of the 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the impacts of rising temperatures, states: “The IPCC has transitioned to what I consider to be a full and rich recognition that the climate change problem is about managing risk” (Reuters, 2013). Awareness is growing also that better methods are needed to assess global risks and ensuring desirable outcomes.
    [Show full text]
  • Christopher Field Wins the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Revealing the Utility of Ecosystem Management As a Weapon Against Climate Change
    The Climate Change category leads off the sixth edition of the awards Christopher Field wins the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for revealing the utility of ecosystem management as a weapon against climate change Field, a biologist, co-chairs Working Group 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change dealing with impacts, adaptation and vulnerability His insights have facilitated the design of effective strategies for managing agricultural fields, forests and other terrestrial ecosystems in the face of future climate change Field has hailed the award as a recognition for the whole community of climate scientists and the science of climate change Madrid, January 9, 2014.- The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category has gone in this sixth edition to U.S. biologist Christopher Field, Director of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science and a professor at Stanford University (United States), for discovering the importance of ecosystems and their effective management in the battle against climate change. Field’s work has allowed to quantify the global climate impact of deforestation, agriculture and other changes in vegetation cover. And vice versa. It has helped predict how climate change will impact on land ecosystems. CO2 exchange between ecosystems and the atmosphere is a full twenty times greater than human-induced emissions. Field’s insights have brought this evidence to light by quantifying how ecosystems influence the amount of carbon circulating in the atmosphere. Not only that, they have shown that terrestrial vegetation plays a part in global climate control by modifying water evaporation and the solar radiation absorbed by the planet.
    [Show full text]
  • Urbanization and Air Pollution
    VOL. 96 NO. 1 15 JAN 2015 MagazineInaugural Issue Earth & Space Science News Then and Now Urbanization and Air Pollution Radioisotopic Geochronology and Astrochronology U.S. Interior Department Issues Revised Scientifi c Integrity Policy AGU Medalists Registration and Housing opening soon! Student Travel Grant Application Deadline: 26 January 2015 Earth & Space Science News Contents 15 JANUARY 2015 NEWS VOLUME 96, ISSUE 1 Satellites Show True Extent 3 of California Drought Since 2011, California’s water supply has lost 4 trillion gallons per year and the Sierra Nevada snowpack has hit record lows. MEETING REPORT 8 Climate, Land Use, and Conflict in Northern Africa How strong is the link between climate change and changes in land use in this vulnerable region? RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT 10 COVER 25 Urbanization and Air Pollution: Hillslopes Regulate Sediment Then and Now Supply to River Channels A new study rethinks the dynamics of Analysis of decades of mitigation efforts in Los Angeles demonstrates runoff-driven erosion in response to that air quality in the world’s megacities can be greatly improved. rainstorms. Earth & Space Science News Eos.org // 1 Contents DEPARTMENTS Editor in Chief Barbara T. Richman: AGU, Washington, D. C., USA; eos_ [email protected] Editors Christina M. S. Cohen: Wendy S. Gordon: Carol A. Stein: California Institute Ecologia Consulting, Department of Earth and of Technology, Pasadena, Austin, Texas, USA; Environmental Sciences, Calif., USA; wendy@ecologiaconsulting University of Illinois at cohen@srl .caltech.edu .com Chicago, Chicago, Ill., USA; [email protected] José D. Fuentes: David Halpern: Department of Meteorology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pennsylvania State Pasadena, Calif., USA; University, University davidhalpern29@gmail Park, Pa., USA; .com [email protected] Editorial Advisory Board M.
    [Show full text]
  • C:\Documents and Settings\Pmheider\Desktop
    No. 05-1120 In the Supreme Court of the United States __________ COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, et al., Petitioners, v. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, et al., Respondents. __________ On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit __________ BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE CLIMATE SCIENTISTS DAVID BATTISTI, WILLIAM E. EASTERLING, CHRISTOPHER FIELD, INEZ FUNG, JAMES E. HANSEN, JOHN HARTE, EUGENIA KALNAY, DANIEL KIRK-DAVIDOFF, PAMELA A. MATSON, JAMES C. MCWILLIAMS, MARIO J. MOLINA, JONATHAN T. OVERPECK, F. SHERWOOD ROWLAND, JOELLEN RUSSELL, SCOTT R. SALESKA, EDWARD SARACHIK, JOHN M. WALLACE, AND STEVEN C. WOFSY IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS __________ JOHN C. DERNBACH ROBERT B. MCKINSTRY, JR.* WIDENER UNIVERSITY PENN STATE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL 432 FOREST RESOURCES 3800 VARTAN WAY BUILDING HARRISBURG, PA 17106 UNIVERSITY PARK, PA 16802 (717) 541-1933 (484) 467-3207 * Counsel of Record KIRSTEN H. ENGEL STEPHANIE TAI UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN COLLEGE OF LAW LAW SCHOOL 1201 E. SPEEDWAY BLVD. 957 BASCOM MALL TUCSON, AZ 85721 MADISON, WI 53706 (520) 621-5444 (608) 890-1236 Counsel for Amici Curiae Climate Scientists TABLE OF CONTENTS Page TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ....................... iii INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE ....................1 A.Perspective.................................2 B.Background and Experience ..................3 SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT .....................9 ARGUMENT....................................10 I. The Science of Climate Change Indicates that It Is Virtually Certain that Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Cause Global Climate Changes, Endangering Human Health and Welfare ..........................................10 II. EPA and the Court of Appeals Mischaracterized the Science of Climate Change, Making It Appear More Uncertain Than It Actually Is .
    [Show full text]
  • Climate Scientists David Battisti, Marshall Burke, Ken Caldiera, Noah Diffenbaugh, William E
    USCA Case #15-1363 Document #1606774 Filed: 04/01/2016 Page 1 of 55 ORAL ARGUMENT SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 2, 2016 No. 15-1363 (and consolidated cases) IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, ET AL., Petitioners, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, ET AL., Respondents. On Petition for Review of a Final Rule of the United States Environmental Protection Agency BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE CLIMATE SCIENTISTS DAVID BATTISTI, MARSHALL BURKE, KEN CALDIERA, NOAH DIFFENBAUGH, WILLIAM E. EASTERLING III, CHRISTOPHER FIELD, JOHN HARTE, JESSICA HELLMANN, DANIEL KIRK-DAVIDOFF, DAVID LOBELL, PAMELA MATSON, KATHERINE MACH, JAMES C. MCWILLIAMS, MARIO J. MOLINA, MICHAEL OPPENHEIMER, JONATHAN OVERPECK, SCOTT R. SALESKA, NOELLE ECKLEY SELIN, DREW SHINDELL, AND STEVEN WOFSY, IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS Stephanie Tai Associate Professor University of Wisconsin Law School 975 Bascom Mall Madison, WI 53706 (202) 270-8926 [email protected] April 1, 2016 USCA Case #15-1363 Document #1606774 Filed: 04/01/2016 Page 2 of 55 Certificate as to Parties, Rulings, and Related Cases Pursuant to Circuit Rule 28(a)(1), Amicus Curiae Climate Scientists state as follows: All parties and amici, rulings under review, and related cases are set forth in the Brief for Respondents Environmental Protection Agency, with the exception of the amici at present: Climate Scientists David Battisti, Marshall Burke, Ken Caldiera, Noah Diffenbaugh, William E. Easterling III, Christopher Field, John Harte, Jessica Hellmann, Daniel Kirk-Davidoff, David Lobell, Pamela Matson, Katherine Mach, James C. Mcwilliams, Mario J. Molina, Michael Oppenheimer, Jonathan Overpeck, Scott R. Saleska, Noelle Eckley Selin, Drew Shindell, and Steven Wofsy.
    [Show full text]
  • Report of the Meeting
    IPCC Expert Meeting on Climate Change, Food, and Agriculture Dublin, Ireland 27-29 May 2015 Meeting Report Edited by: Michael D. Mastrandrea, Katharine J. Mach, Vicente R. Barros, T. Eren Bilir, David J. Dokken, Ottmar Edenhofer, Christopher B. Field, Taka Hiraishi, Susanne Kadner, Thelma Krug, Jan C. Minx, Ramón Pichs-Madruga, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Dahe Qin, Youba Sokona, Thomas F. Stocker, Melinda Tignor This meeting was agreed in advance as part of the IPCC workplan, but this does not imply working group or panel endorsement or approval of the proceedings or any recommendations or conclusions contained herein. Supporting material prepared for consideration by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This material has not been subjected to formal IPCC review processes. IPCC Expert Meeting on Climate Change, Food, and Agriculture Dublin, Ireland 27-29 May 2015 Meeting Report Edited by: Michael D. Mastrandrea, Katharine J. Mach, Vicente R. Barros, T. Eren Bilir, David J. Dokken, Ottmar Edenhofer, Christopher B. Field, Taka Hiraishi, Susanne Kadner, Thelma Krug, Jan C. Minx, Ramón Pichs-Madruga, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Dahe Qin, Youba Sokona, Thomas F. Stocker, Melinda Tignor This meeting was agreed in advance as part of the IPCC workplan, but this does not imply working group or panel endorsement or approval of the proceedings or any recommendations or conclusions contained herein. Supporting material prepared for consideration by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This material has not been subjected to formal IPCC review processes. ISBN 978-92-9169-145-6 Published July 2015. Electronic copies of this report are available from the IPCC website (http://www.ipcc.ch/).
    [Show full text]
  • Experiment Workshop Report 23Feb2009
    Front Cover From the top and left: ∑ The Earth from space; front cover design by David Cottrell ∑ Wet tropical forest canopy (Photo credit – FLUXNET photo gallery). The superimposed text and arrows represent the hypothesized continuous and interrelated process of climate and atmospheric impacts, ecosystem changes, and subsequent feedbacks to the physical climate system. ∑ Free-air CO2 experimental ring in Tennessee (Photo credit – ORNL #129762-97) ∑ Drying treatment infrastructure beneath Pinyon-Juniper Forests in New Mexico (Photo credit – Judd Hill) ∑ Infrared warming array over crops in Arizona (Photo credit – Bruce Kimball) ∑ Plot-scale air and soil warming in Manitoba, Canada (Photo credit – Paul J. Hanson) 2 ECOSYSTEM EXPERIMENTS: UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEMS AND FEEDBACKS TO THE PHYSICAL CLIMATE Report of the workshop on Exploring Science Needs for the Next Generation of Climate Change and Elevated-CO2 Experiments in Terrestrial Ecosystems 14-18 April 2008 DoubleTree Hotel, Crystal City, National Airport 300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, Virginia Paul J. Hanson, Aimee Classen, Lara Kueppers, Yiqi Luo, Nathan G. McDowell, James Morris, Alistair Rogers, Peter Thornton, Reinhart Ceulemans, Jeffrey Dukes, Michael Goulden, Robert Jackson, Alan Knapp, Miko Kirschbaum, Keith Lewin, Michael MacCracken, Jerry Melillo, Todd Ringler, and Workshop Participants* *A complete list of workshop contributors is located on the next page. 16 June 2008 Acknowledgement: This workshop was organized and operated by the Environmental Sciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory with support from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05- 00OR22725.
    [Show full text]
  • Carnegie Institution Fax: 202.387.8092 0 O of WASHINGTON 7 K C a Y R E N E a G R I E B I N O S T O I T K U T I O N O
    2 0 0 6 - 2 0 CAR NE GIE 0 7 INSTITUTION FOR 2 Y SCIENCE 0 E 0 A 6 1530 P Street, R - NW Washington DC 20005 2 B Phone: 202.387.6400 0 O Carnegie Institution Fax: 202.387.8092 0 O www.ciw.edu OF WASHINGTON 7 K C A Y R E N E A G R I E B I N O S T O I T K U T I O N O The paper used in manufacturing this year book contains 30% post-consumer recycled F fiber. By using recycled fiber in place of virgin fiber, the Carnegie Institution preserved W 13.25 trees, saved 38 pounds of waterborne waste, saved 5,627 gallons of water, and A prevented 1,226 pounds of greenhouse gasses. The energy used to print the report was S H produced by wind power. Using this energy source for printing saved 2,627 pounds of I N CO 2 emissions, which is the equivalent to saving 1,786 miles of automobile travel. G T Design by Tina Taylor, T2 Design O Printed by Monroe Litho ISSN 0069-066X N D e p a r t m D e D e n T p e t h D a p e e o r a p t f r C G m a t T a e m r e e r o t n e n r p m r t n e F h e e t g i y o s n r i s f o t e s t i r f t G c o i O a P l a L f o b l l l i b E s a g L M e a m n h a r l a t t b b v g E B r o & a n c y r i t e o o o a o C t l l l t r A i o o o o i s S e g g g r m E s y y y y Department of Embryology 3520 San Martin Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • Science Framework and Implementation
    ESSP Report No.1 GCP Report No.1 The Global Carbon Project A framework for Internationally Co-ordinated Research on the Global Carbon Cycle www.globalcarbonproject.org Global Carbon Project The Science Framework and Implementation Editors: Josep G. Canadell, Robert Dickinson, Kathy Hibbard, Michael Raupach & Oran Young Prepared by the Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Carbon Project: Michael Apps, Alain Chedin, Chen-Tung Arthur Chen, Peter Cox, Robert Dickinson, Ellen R.M. Druffel, Christopher Field, Patricia Romero Lankao, Louis Lebel, Anand Patwardhan, Michael Raupach, Monika Rhein, Christopher Sabine, Riccardo Valentini, Yoshiki Yamagata, Oran Young Please, cite this document as: Global Carbon Project (2003) Science Framework and Implementation. Earth System Science Partnership (IGBP, IHDP, WCRP, DIVERSITAS) Report No. 1; Global Carbon Project Report No. 1, 69pp, Canberra. Cover photo credits: Forest Fire: Brian Stocks; Smoke stack: www.freephoto.com; Ocean: Christopher Sabine. Preface We are pleased to launch the Earth System Science We believe that this document will help to encourage, Partnership (ESSP) report series with the publication of promote and shape carbon cycle research around the the Science Framework and Implementation Strategy of world for at least the next decade. Furthermore, we believe the Global Carbon Project. This report marks the that it will provide the framework for a substantially beginning of a new era in international global change enhanced knowledge base for dealing more effectively research,
    [Show full text]
  • IPCC Expert Meeting on Geoengineering
    IPCC Expert Meeting on Geoengineering Lima, Peru 20-22 June 2011 Meeting Report Edited by: Ottmar Edenhofer, Ramón Pichs-Madruga, Youba Sokona, Christopher Field, Vicente Barros, Thomas F. Stocker, Qin Dahe, Jan Minx, Katharine Mach, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Steffen Schlömer, Gerrit Hansen, Michael Mastrandrea This meeting was agreed in advance as part of the IPCC workplan, but this does not imply working group or panel endorsement or approval of the proceedings or any recommendations or conclusions contained herein. Supporting material prepared for consideration by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This material has not been subjected to formal IPCC review processes. IPCC Expert Meeting on Geoengineering Lima, Peru 20-22 June 2011 Meeting Report Edited by: Ottmar Edenhofer, Ramon Pichs-Madruga, Youba Sokona, Christopher Field, Vicente Barros, Thomas F. Stocker, Qin Dahe, Jan Minx, Katharine Mach, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Steffen Schlömer, Gerrit Hansen, Michael Mastrandrea This meeting was agreed in advance as part of the IPCC workplan, but this does not imply working group or panel endorsement or approval of the proceedings or any recommendations or conclusions contained herein. Supporting material prepared for consideration by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This material has not been subjected to formal IPCC review processes. Cover photo courtesy of Edgar Asencios, Lima, Peru ISBN 978-92-9169-136-4 Published May 2012 by the IPCC Working Group III Technical Support Unit, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany. Electronic copies of this report are available from the IPCC website (http://www.ipcc.ch/) and the IPCC WGIII website (http://www.ipcc-wg3.de/).
    [Show full text]
  • Chapters Are Repeated in Spanish and English.] Canada’S National Forest Inventory Is an Interagency Partnership
    Science Implementation Strategy for the North American Carbon Program Prepared for the U.S. Carbon Cycle Scientific Steering Group and Interagency Working Group by the North American Carbon Program Implementation Strategy Group A. Scott Denning Chair and editor The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Science Implementation Strategy for the North American Carbon Program July 2005 Prepared for the U.S. Carbon Cycle Scientific Steering Group (CCSSG) and Interagency Working Group (CCIWG) North American Carbon Program Implementation Strategy Group A. Scott Denning, chair and editor, Colorado State University Ram Oren, Duke University David McGuire, University of Alaska-Fairbanks Christopher Sabine, NOAA-Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Scott Doney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Keith Paustian, Colorado State University Margaret Torn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lisa Dilling, University of Colorado Linda Heath, USDA-Forest Service Pieter Tans, NOAA-Climate and Monitoring Diagnostics Laboratory Steven Wofsy, Harvard University Robert Cook, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sharon Waltman, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service Arlyn Andrews, NOAA-Climate and Monitoring Diagnostics Laboratory Gregory Asner, Carnegie Institution of Washington John Baker, University of Minnesota
    [Show full text]
  • Meeting Report of the Intergovernmental Panel On
    IPCC Expert Meeting on Detection and Attribution Related to Anthropogenic Climate Change The World Meteorological Organization Geneva, Switzerland 14–16 September 2009 Meeting Report Edited by: Thomas Stocker, Christopher Field, Qin Dahe, Vicente Barros, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Melinda Tignor, Pauline Midgley, Kristie Ebi This meeting was agreed in advance as part of the IPCC workplan, but this does not imply working group or panel endorsement or approval of the proceedings or any recommendations or conclusions contained herein. Supporting material prepared for consideration by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This material has not been subjected to formal IPCC review processes. IPCC Expert Meeting on Detection and Attribution Related to Anthropogenic Climate Change The World Meteorological Organization Geneva, Switzerland 14-16 September 2009 Meeting Report Edited by: Thomas Stocker, Christopher Field, Qin Dahe, Vicente Barros, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Melinda Tignor, Pauline Midgley, Kristie Ebi This meeting was agreed in advance as part of the IPCC workplan, but this does not imply working group or panel endorsement or approval of the proceedings or any recommendations or conclusions contained herein. Supporting material prepared for consideration by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This material has not been subjected to formal IPCC review processes. ISBN 978-92-9169-127-5 Published December 2010 by the IPCC Working Group I Technical Support Unit, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Electronic copies of this
    [Show full text]