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As fossil fuel emissions continue to climb, reducing the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth would definitely have a cooling effect on surface temperatures.
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Placing a 'sunshade' in space in order to counteract global warming was first proposed in 1989
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The newest analysis of trace gases trapped in Antarctic ice cores now provide a reasonable view of greenhouse gas concentrations as much as 800,000 years into the past, and are further confirming the link between greenhouse gas levels and global warming
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 | Ice cores from Antarctica show both the lowest atmospheric content of CO2 (carbon dioxide) and fast changes in the content of CH4 (methane) measured over the past 800,000 years. ...> Full Article |
With locked crust, Earth could become another Venus
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 | Oxygen-poor waters are expanding in tropical regions of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans ...> Full Article |
 | Computer analyses of global climate have consistently overstated warming in Antarctica, concludes new research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Ohio State University. ...> Full Article |
Scientists who compared recorded Antarctic temperatures and snowfall accumulation to predictions by major computer models of global climate change offer both good and bad news.
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 | Calculations indicate the record low minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic last September has a three-in-five chance of being shattered again in 2008 because of continued warming temperatures and a preponderance of younger, thinner ice. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists on the second leg of a multi-year mission to recover ice cores from glaciers in the Alaska wilderness ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists have discovered a new climate pattern called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation ...> Full Article |
 | Science team designing a NASA satellite mission to collect global soil moisture measurements and other data seen as key to improving weather, flood and drought forecasts and predictions of agricultural productivity and climate change. ...> Full Article |
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