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As Alaska warms, methane emissions appear stable
2016-06-23 01:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Analysis of nearly three decades of air samples from Alaska's North Slope shows little change in long-term methane emissions despite significant Arctic warming over that time period, according to new research published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. Scientists estimate that Arctic permafrost, a thick layer of frozen soil that encircles the globe, contains two and a half times as much carbon as has been emitted since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution....
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