The question then becomes, well, what happens then: when the ice melts and albedo lowers, when warmer weather and higher CO2 increase plant growth, what happens to clouds and so on through a list of hundreds of possible feedbacks.
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For example, at higher altitudes only certain plant and animal species can survive under long periods of snow and ice cover.
In general, though, those who turn to, say, herbicide-resistant soyabeans, do not plant them for higher yields.
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Workers at the plant have received considerably higher levels of exposure, according to data from Tokyo Electric Power Co.
However, research by Dr Louise Parker of the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, published last year, suggested that workers at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria had higher than average chances of fathering a stillborn child, or one born with defects.
Luckett says the company and its partners in the plant are in dispute over higher-than-expected construction costs.
What killed his plant was the effect of higher labour costs on suppliers, who one by one moved to Asia.
The company noted that European coal generation increased 13% in June over the last 12 months as a result of nuclear cutbacks, a knee-jerk reaction to nuclear power given the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, and higher gas prices, further feeding demand for coal.
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Levels around the plant were at times 20, 000 times higher than normal.
Unemployment is nearly 10% in Dagenham, two points higher than the London average, since Ford closed its plant four years ago and axed almost 3, 000 jobs.
Although the process to produce ethanol from switchgrass was more complex than using food crops such as wheat or corn, the so-called "second generation" biofuel could produce much higher energy yields per tonne because it utilised the whole plant rather than just the seeds.
He wants to stabilise the Fukushima nuclear power plant, around which levels of radiation are proving higher than expected, and may create large, semi-permanent no-go zones, just as at Chernobyl.
On a fine summer day she drives to Nihonmatsu, 56km (35 miles) from the ruined nuclear plant at Fukushima, and notes her Geiger counter ticking higher: another step in the DIY defence against radioactivity.
It is planned that parts of the body plant will be equipped to reuse modern robotic automation to produce higher levels of assembly with components from the press shop.
The result, in the case of staple crops, is higher yields in tougher conditions: a hectare of rice, a C3 plant, produces a harvest of no more than eight tonnes, whereas maize, a C4 plant, yields as much as 12 tonnes.
Investment across Scotland's farms in 2012 was higher than predicted at the start of the year. 45% invested in plant and equipment, after only 28% stated last year that they planned to do so.
" Because the plant is of an old design, "radiation tends to be higher.
If the good news from the manufacturers is overshadowed by more problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, then the ProShares UltraShort MSCI Japan (NYSE: EWV) may climb higher.
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Higher amounts of carbon dioxide not only kick-start pollen production, they also boost the amount of pollen each plant generates, too -- especially in urban areas, where the gas is more plentiful.
Next the company converted the microbe to produce means to create ethanol fuel from plant cellulose, and following scale-up and cost problems, abandoned that dream to focus upon higher cost chemicals used in cosmetics.
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