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Climate science: A sensitive matter
2013-03-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: OVER the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earths surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar. The world added roughly 100 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010. That is about a quarter of all the CO2 put there by humanity since 1750. And yet, as James Hansen, the head of NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies, observes, the five-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade. Temperatures fluctuate over short periods,...
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