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Climate change only one symptom of a stressed planet Earth

02-02-2007 · EurekAlert!

The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme responds to the IPCC AR4 by focussing on the need for an integrated, Earth Systems Science approach to the challenges posed by global environmental change. Several scientists from the IGBP network who authored chapters of the IPCC report are quoted.

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