The earth is difficult to imitate, let alone replace.

The Biosphere 2 experiment failed due to a rapid accumulation of carbon dioxide and decreasingly low levels of oxygen. Because the facility was sealed to simulate conditions in space no exchange with Earth's oxygen rich atmosphere was taking place. Over time the level of oxygen dropped even though plants in the facility generated oxygen for photosynthesis.

In hindsight the problem was the rapid removal of oxygen from the biosphere chamber because the concrete was still drying and oxidizing as it dried and hardened. That means the concrete was combining with the available oxygen in the facility and robbing the occupants of the oxygen they required to breathe.

1. A widespread misinformation campaign
2. Abrupt changes in climate
3. Archer, David – The Long Thaw
4. Atmospheric Science 2012 article
5. Bibliography (annotated)
6. Biodiversity and global warming
7. Carbon facts
8. Carbon trading
9. Carbon trading, critics of
10. causes
11. Clean Energy and Earth day 08
12. Climate change causes of
13. Climate change, compelling science
14. Climate change, consequences [long-term] of
15. Climate is changing abruptly now.
16. Current findings
17. Climate Science Report June 2008
18. current studies since 2012
19. Defense Department - DOD
20. Dyson's, (Freeman) commentary on recent findings
21. Electricity
22. Emissions
23. Evidence
24. Evidence for climate chaos is growing.
25. externalities
26. Fourth Assessment Report [AR4] of the IPCC
27. Fourth Assessment Report–Comments on AR4 policies
28. Frequently asked questions
29. Gelbspan, Ross– Boiling Point.
30. Gelbspan– The Heat is On.
31. Geothermal energy as a a solution.
32. German Chancellor's warnings.
33. G. Tyler Miller's text chapter on global warming
34. Global Warming, an overview
35. Global Warming and Biological Diversity
36. Global warming brief review by chemist G. Tyler Miller
37. Global warming is?
38. graphs & maps
39. Greenhouse effect
40. greenhouse gases
41. Hazardous Algal Blooms?
42. incomprehensibility, a key concept.
43. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC];
44. IPCC's Fourth Assessment (AR4)
45. isotopes as evidence of human induced climate changes
46. Last 45 years of carbon variation
47. Literature review
48. McKibben's commentary on conservative quality of the AR4
49. Mann, Michael E. False Hope, Scientific Americn, 2014
50. Meaning of 2008 data
51. Miller's text chapter on global warming
52. MIT's Ronald Prinn's Description
53. monitoring carbon dioxide levels
54. National security
55. Robert Musil's Hope for a Heated Planet – suggestions and what people are doing to adapt.
56. NOAA: current levels of carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa observatory.
57. Overview (Speech on climate change's challenges)
58. Picturing Climate Science (book)
59. Political deception
60. Politics of Climate Change (course}
61. Preserving biological diversity in the face of climate change, [essay].
62. President Jimmy Carter's Nobel Prize Speech
63. Prinn, Ronald, [see #49 above.]
64. purpose
65. Recent [2012-2013] Climate Change evidence
66. Salmon streams
67. Solutions
68. Solving Climate Change Impasses
69. Temperature changes
70. Thresholds
71. Vocabulary
72. web research
73. What is abrupt climate change ?
74. What is global warming?
75. What you can know to do!
76. Why global warming is not a natural trend.

 

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Sources

Gideon Forman, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment."Carbon Sequestration; Letters." Scientific American, March 2014, p. 8.

Book-length Authors

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