Cooling the planet with crops
Friday, January 23, 2009 - 15:56
in Earth & Climate
By carefully selecting which varieties of food crops to cultivate, much of Europe and North America could be cooled by up to 1 C during the summer growing season, say researchers from the University of Bristol, UK. This is equivalent to an annual global cooling of over 0.1 C, almost 20% of the total global temperature increase since the Industrial Revolution...