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Our best guess about global warming may be wrong
We may have significantly underestimated the effects of the CO2 now being released into the atmosphere.
By Moises Velasquez-Manoff
Full Story: http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/08/31/our-best-guess-about-global-warming-may-be-wrong/
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Climate trouble may be bubbling up in far north
By Charles J. Hanley, Associated Press
MACKENZIE RIVER DELTA, Northwest Territories — Only a squawk from a sandhill crane broke the Arctic silence — and a low gurgle of bubbles, a watery whisper of trouble repeated in countless spots around the polar world.
"On a calm day, you can see 20 or more ‘seeps’ out across this lake," said Canadian researcher Rob Bowen, sidling his small rubber boat up beside one of them. A tossed match would have set it ablaze.
"It’s essentially pure methane."
Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/2009-08-31-climate-methane_N.htm
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