Apr042007
Will climate change even change our soil?
Filed under Uncategorized by david brooks at 6:09 am
I participated in a conference call Monday in anticipation of the second report from the IPCC about climate change, and wasn’t expecting to hear anything new: sugar maples are threatened, snowpack will fade, New Hampshire will become more like Virginia. Distressing, but not new. Then UNH professor Scott Ollinger mentioned something new: It will even affect our soil. Hey presto, a story is born.
April 4th, 2007 at 11:24 am
A very good story. I imagine few have even thought about this aspect of climate change.
Another soil-related topic: “arctic” soils. When snowpacks and glaciers melt, the soil beneath is exposed and thawed. The soil contains many organic components, such as methane, a potent greenhouse gase, that may be released, further worsening the greenhouse effect.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
The thought of positive-feedback loops in global warming is so depressing, I prefer to stick my fingers in my ears and say la-la-la-I’m-not-LIStening …
December 11th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
[...] plenty of past posts on the topic with some of these same folks, notably Cameron Wake - including this one, in which I discuss how climate change is even altering the [...]
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:05 am
[...] about the sad fact that climate change is likely to make our climate more like the South (heck, it’ll even change our soil), but it’s still shocking to see it [...]