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1. Inventário das geleiras da Cordilhera Oriental, Bolívia : 1975-2009
Geleiras de montanha são importantes indicadores das mudanças climáticas e reservam informações ambientais pretéritas significativas sobre a evolução do clima da Terra. As que respondem mais rapidamente a essas mudanças estão localizadas entre os trópicos. Na Bolívia, geleiras tropicais são encontradas associadas ao relevo escarpado da Cordilhei
Publicado em: 2011
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2. Paleoclimate and Amerindians: Evidence from stable isotopes and atmospheric circulation
Two Amerindian demographic shifts are attributed to climate change in the northwest plains of North America: at ≈11,000 calendar years before present (yr BP), Amerindian culture apparently split into foothills–mountains vs. plains biomes; and from 8,000–5,000 yr BP, scarce archaeological sites on the open plains suggest emigration during xeric “
The National Academy of Sciences.
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3. Self-enforcing climate-change treaties
In the absence of world government, an effective treaty to control the emissions of greenhouse gases should be self-enforcing. A self-enforcing treaty has the property that, if a country expects other countries to abide by the treaty, it will be in the self-interest of that country to abide by the treaty too. (A difficulty with the Kyoto Protocol is that it
National Academy of Sciences.