land cover, Tag

Although most landscape changes are caused by humans, the intent here is show how landscape changes largely account for the land's temperature trends that have been incorrectly blamed on rising CO2.

Pursuant to the story on sugarcane cooling the local climate, here are two posts from Dr. Roger Pielke Senior that show the effects of land use change in other venues. ==============================================================...

More proof positive that land use change has more to do with Kilimanjaro’s diminishing snowfall (due to reduced evapotranspiraton of surrounding land) than climate change...