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Nature 435, 732-733 (9 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/435732a; Published online 8 June 2005
Climate change: That sinking feeling
Quirin Schiermeier1
- Quirin Schiermeier is Nature's German correspondent.
Abstract
Siberia's vast forests absorb huge quantities of carbon from the atmosphere. But how much, and will they continue to do so in a warming world? Quirin Schiermeier speaks to the carbon accountants.
It took just one Siberian heatwave to temporarily wipe out most of the gains made by the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. In the summer of 2003, wildfires raced across the region, incinerating an area of some 22 million hectares: slightly smaller than the state of Oregon.
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