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Ezra Niesen, Certified Instructor

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During March 2010 sea ice extent has continued to grow bucking the trend of a slow reduction in sea ice at this time of year. Sea Ice Extent is just below the 1979-2000 average sea ice extent. This data is still in accord with the long term trend of reduction in arctic sea ice.

A new Greenpeace report uncovers the multimillion dollar funding and intense lobbying against climate science and climate action by Koch Industries, that eclipses the traditional funding for climate deniers from ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies.

Greenpeace Reports: Koch Industries: secretly funding the climate denial machine | Dealing in Doubt: A Brief History of Attacks on Climate Science, Climate Scientists and the IPCC

NEW REPORT: GM CROPS FAILING TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE
Global opposition and safety concerns continue to halt biotech industry

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Amsterdam / Uruguay, 23 February 2010 - On the day of the release of
annual industry-sponsored figures, a new report from Friends of the
Earth International reveals that claims made by the biotech industry

PLANKTON SAY: "GOOD NIGHT"

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While Australia sizzles, much of Europe, North America, China and Asia has been subjected to snowstorms and freezing weather disrupting trade and transport with climate deniers chortling that global cooling is here.

South east Australia has just sizzled through another heatwave. Of course it is just weather which has a natural variability. One weather event can't be pinned down as the result of climate change. Climate change is about trends and averages. And the trend is its getting warmer, we're sizzling.

The concentration of methane in the atmosphere is rising, according to measurements made by the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) at its Baring Head Station near Wellington.

Methane (CH4) is a greenhouse gas whose affect on climate is 21 times stronger than Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and is the second most important contributor to global warming behind carbon dioxide. It is produced naturally mainly by biological breakdown of organic substances in oxygen-deficient conditions, such as the digestive system of ruminant animals and the decay of plant material in swamps or landfills. It is also prevalent in fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas (which is mainly methane).

Human civilization could be in for a hot ride as new research just published in Nature Geoscience from Yale University Geologists indicates global temperature increase may be more sensitive to atmospheric CO2 than previously indicated.

Geologists from Yale University reconstructed CO2 concentrations for the past five million years to estimate Earth-system climate sensitivity.