Carbon cycle
- Created by: 8cburton
- Created on: 26-05-15 18:05
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- Carbon cycle
- Burning fossil fuels accounts for 70% of the increase in CO2
- Deforestation accounts for 30% of the increase in CO2
- Half of the world's forest have been removed over the last 30 years
- Global warming will change rainfall patterns, rise in sea level, impacts on wildlife and humans
- Polar caps melting resulting in flooding of coastal areas
- Increased freq of extreme weather
- Deserfication
- Increased crop yields but also more pests
- Massive reduction in grain crops in N America and Central Asia
- Decreased ocean PH threatening coral reefs and fish
- All organisms respire releasing CO2 to the atmosphere + burning of fossil fuels
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