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Good News on Global Warming

Posted by michael on from the fewer-cow-farts dept.

TheSync writes "OK, CO2 levels are rising, but iAfrica has a report that atmospheric methane concentrations are leveling off. Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas, accounting for one fifth of total warming. Researchers don't know why this is."

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  1. Re:Out of hand? by fluffy666 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, I could point out the end-proterozoic super-glaciation, where Ice cover seems to have reached >90% of the planet several times, or the Late Cretaceous greenhouse, with sea levels ~200m higher than today's. Ice caps are quite unusual for the planet over geological time.