Open AccessPreindustrial land use change caused 0.73°C of global warming
Author(s) -
Schultz Colin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo260009
Subject(s) - clearing , environmental science , holocene , climate change , atmosphere (unit) , global warming , earth (classical element) , fossil fuel , land use, land use change and forestry , global change , earth science , physical geography , nutrient , land use , climatology , geology , geography , ecology , oceanography , meteorology , physics , finance , economics , mathematical physics , biology
Since the dawn of the Holocene nearly 12,000 years ago, humans have been shaping the Earth's surface and atmosphere. By redistributing soil and nutrients, clearing land, chopping down trees, rerouting rivers, setting fires, and, later, burning fossil fuels, humans have gradually become the dominant driver of change in the Earth's climate.