Could The Greenhouse Effect Cause More Damage?

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lamps will heat every other
section by 2.5 degrees. The unheated sections in between allow researchers to
compare the efects of the lamps with the regular state of the meadow.
One time a week, Harte will take gas samples from buckets turned upside
down for ten minutes at a time on both the heated and unheated strips through
fitted nipples at the bottoms of the buckets by syringes, then analyze them
with a gas chromatograph. "We'll be able to plot any changes in the meadow
very precisely," says Harte.
Some of these changes could alter the very make-up of the seasons. With a
2.5 degree rise in temperature, snow at high elevations might melt up to two
months sooner. In Colorado that would constitute March as May. As a result,
the soil will dry quicker and will be much warmer than usual when May rolls
around. John Harte says it would be like expanding summer at the expense of
winter.
That means plants that usually start to bloom just as the snow begins to
melt ...

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