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The 101 on Climate Change

Christopher Kemper

2004 Tsunami This changed my life. International organizations, such as the United Nations (UN), have attempted to address the complex issue of climate change. The theory of climate change is boiled down into a few sentences: Human activity is leading to increasing levels of GHG emissions from a wide variety of sources (e.g.

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Want to prevent California’s looming flood disaster? Grow a marsh.

Grist

No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. River and marsh bottoms typically have low oxygen levels, which slows the decomposition of organic material that collects there. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon.

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