Ecologists Using Global Carbon-Balance Models Were Overestimating the Rate of Increase

question 51

Multiple Choice

Ecologists using global carbon-balance models were overestimating the rate of increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide. This discovery led these ecologists to

• A) discard their models.
• B) switch to modelling other phenomena.
• C) conclude that increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide is not a serious environmental problem.
• D) search for evidence of other carbon dioxide sinks in the global cycle of carbon.

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