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Volcanic eruptions can 'mask the true effects of climate change'
2016-08-10 11:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wired: Recent reports that suggest sea levels aren't rising as fast as expected and may even be dropping could be inaccurate, according to new research. Experts from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have discovered that the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines could have masked the true reading, and this could have dire consequences for the future. Satellite observations, which began in 1993, show that the rate of sea level rise has held fairly steady at about 3 millimeters...
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