Orlando Almeida

Integrated Reading & Writing

William Albertson
10 august 2014



Global Warming: Causes and Evidences
Annotated Bibliography


Dihlon, R. S. & Wuehlish, G. V. 2013. Mitigation of global warming through renewable
biomass. Biomass & Bioenergy, 48, 75-89.

In this article, the authors believe that the use of renewable biomass may be an important
tool in the mitigation of environmental pollution. They cited the role that biomass plays is
diversified, and it is related to food production, biodiversity conservation, source of
energy, and mainly it has an important part in the mitigation of the impact of global
warming. The main idea of the article is to explain and show the reader the possibilities
that exists to solve, or minimally, mitigate the CO2 concentration in the earths
atmosphere. Therefore, the authors presented some options for CO2 mitigation as
reforesting, afforestation, renewable biomass and soil organic carbon. In this way the
GHGs gases would be in less concentration in the atmosphere, and then lot of problems
can be avoided.

Is notable that the rising of GHGs as CO2 may cause large future issues, so reducing the
emission of those gases with a more efficient use of biomass or even sequestration them
from the atmosphere by reforesting are good solutions and may mitigate the problem;
actually those methods together should perhaps solve a big part of the issues we are
dealing now and even prevent some in a close future. (Article from ProQuest)

Sigh, M. et al. 2013. Efficient C sequestration and benefits of medicinal vetiver cropping in
tropical regions. INRA and Springer-Verlag France.

The authors, in this article, show an innovation in the environmental research area related
to the CO2 cycle. More exactly, the authors talk about the carbon sequestration, and how
can some specific organisms as rare plants can raise the potential of absorbing carbon
dioxide. In this aspect the authors cited and explained a research in which an rare kind of
plant called vetiver (Vetiveria zizanioides) can absorb almost three times more CO2 than
other plants that were synonyms of sequestering carbon dioxide, and they could if
correctly used absorb almost half of Indias gas emission in an entire year.
As is known, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere attached high levels, and this
fact may turn into a severe issue in a close future. So, those alternative methods to
sequestrate CO2 from the air are a great option. It also provides us others benefits as a
better life quality in all aspects, even in a better breathing, and generally in peoples
health. (Article from ProQuest)

Wei, T. et al. 2014. Influence of the carbon cycle on the attribution of responsibility
for climate change. Science China Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

The article tackles the significance of the carbon dioxide to the global warming; mainly,
it is negative influence in the process of climate change. The paper also talks about the
responsibility of the emission of gases such as carbon dioxide, so the authors divided the
world in developed and developing, and then compared both in statistics of CO2 emission
and air pollution by two earth system models called the Community Earth System Model
and the Beijing Normal University-Earth System Model. Those systems incorporated the
global carbon cycle, and with the data collected the authors compare the role that
developed and developing countries played in a close past with the one they do
nowadays, so they discuss the importance and influence the developed countries have in
this context.

The research about the carbon cycle influences in the climate change can be very useful
once it allows the knowledge and comprehension of the climate change process that
involves carbon dioxide, and then with this knowledge researches can try to solve the
problem. Its indicative of the influence that some countries have in the emission of the
green-house gases is even more important to people awareness about what is actually
happening next to them. (Article from ProQuest)