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  jim burton

  

  CO2 Surges Past 410 ppm at 30 ESRL station locations

  apocalypse4real-globalmethanetracking.com

  NOAA announced this past week that the South Pole CO2 level sliced through 400 ppm and garnished a major amount of media attention. Source: …

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  jim burton

  

  Permafrost soil under North Slope lakes is about to thaw

  adn.com - By Yereth Rosen

  In northernmost Alaska, permafrost is steadily warming and large amounts of thaw are expected by the end of the century. But for some spots, the thaw …

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  Climate Power

  Jun 9, 2016

  Arctic sea ice plummets to staggering low in May, while CO2 levels hit record high:

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  jim burton

  

  Atmospheric carbon dioxide just reached a huge record high

  The Washington Post

  The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached a new record in May. It also increased more in a single year than it has since we began to monitor it in the late 1950s — something that we can mostly attribute to the burning of fossil fuels, plus a little nudge from El Niño. The average carbon …

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  jim burton

  

  Watch how Louisiana's coastline has vanished over the last 80 years

  Vox - Brad Plumer

  Over the last 80 years, Louisiana has lost nearly 2,000 square miles of coastland — land that has simply vanished into the Gulf of Mexico. And much, much more land is likely to disappear in the years ahead unless major changes are made. That's the subject of a terrific 2014 investigation from Bob …

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  jim burton

  

  Scientists just discovered dozens of new sources of air pollution

  The Washington Post

  Scientists may have significantly underestimated a dangerous source of pollution in the atmosphere, new research suggests. A satellite study, published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, has revealed nearly 40 previously unreported major sources of sulfur dioxide emissions — a pollutant that …