New model of man's role in climate change
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 14:20
in Earth & Climate
'Humans didn't wait for the industrial revolution to provoke environment and climate change. They have been having an influence for at least 8000 years.' Jed Kaplan is putting forward a new interpretation of the history of man and his environment. This professor at EPFL and his colleague Kristen Krumhardt have developed a model that demonstrates the link between population increase and deforestation. The method enables a fairly precise estimate of human-origin carbon emissions before the advent of industrialisation...