Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Global cooling induced by biophysical effects of bioenergy crop cultivation

  • Jingmeng Wang,
  • Wei Li,
  • Philippe Ciais,
  • Laurent Z. X. Li,
  • Jinfeng Chang,
  • Daniel Goll,
  • Thomas Gasser,
  • Xiaomeng Huang,
  • Narayanappa Devaraju,
  • Olivier Boucher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27520-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Bioenergy crops has been proposed as a climate mitigation measure, but how the biophysical effects of large-scale cultivation would influence the climate is not well known. Here, the authors use models to show that large-scale cultivation could cool the global land by 0.03 to 0.08 °C.