Word: moorcroft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...layer of peat, an extremely combustible material, provides ready fuel for ravaging wildfires. These fires could drive carbon emissions higher still, Moorcroft said...
...findings—published in this month’s issue of the journal Nature Geoscience—showed that modest rises in temperature dry out the bogs regardless of precipitation patterns, said Paul R. Moorcroft, an associate professor of biology and co-author of the study...
...There has been the assumption that since precipitation hasn’t changed, the peat lands will be fine,” Moorcroft said...
Peat bogs contain 30 to 60 times the amount of carbon emitted annually worldwide, and their destabilization threatens to dramatically accelerate the global warming process, Moorcroft said...
...Moorcroft said he hopes to study further the potential for fires in northern bogs affected by climate change, particularly because this study predicted that carbon decomposition would soon rise rapidly, further emphasizing the importance of immediate action in mitigating global warming...