As the terrestrial world is warming up, the literary one is cooling down.
As the American novelist Roxana Robinson put it the other day in the New York Times, 'the terrestrial world is warming up [and] the literary world is cooling down... an icy chill has crept across the writer's landscape.' So the novels that attract the most attention are the novels that, positively bristling with bravura displays of technical virtuosity, remain at heart quite bereft of feeling.
Deutsch, C. A. et al. Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude.
Despite faster rates of warming in terrestrial systems compared to ocean environments, the velocity of range shifts for marine taxa exceeds those reported for terrestrial species.
Hare said: "The paper shows a significant positive feedback from warming on the terrestrial carbon cycle.
Terrestrial ecosystems have encountered substantial warming over the past century, with temperatures increasing about twice as rapidly over land as over the oceans.
Latitudinal range shifts as response to warming often surpass terrestrial estimates several fold (Jones et al. 2010; Poloczanska et al. 2013), and emerging mismatches in phenologies may ultimately threaten trophic linkage and hence ecosystem functioning (Beaugrand et al. 2003).
The DLEM-estimated terrestrial contribution to alleviate climate warming in terms of GWP (−0.50 ± 0.27 Pg CO2 eq/year) is slightly smaller than the mean value of all the existing estimates (−0.90 ± 1.33 Pg CO2 eq/year; Table S1).
Kim, J.-S. et al. Reduced North American terrestrial primary productivity linked to anomalous Arctic warming.
"Methane release in the Arctic from both marine and terrestrial sources is expected to increase with warming climate, as documented in numerous papers," Ruppel said.
For instance, forest growth is spurred -- and terrestrial carbon stocks are increased -- by a warming climate, and by rising levels of carbon dioxide and of atmospheric nitrogen deposited on forests as a result of industrial emissions.
