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Western Canada’s Glaciers Hit 7000-Year Low

November 8, 2007 – 6:36 am

ScienceDaily (Nov. 1, 2007) — Tree stumps at the feet of Western Canadian glaciers are providing new insights into the accelerated rates at which the rivers of ice have been shrinking due to human-aided global warming.
Geologist Johannes Koch of The College of Wooster found the deceptively fresh and intact tree stumps beside the retreating glaciers [...]

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Cirrus Disappearance: Warming Might Thin Heat-trapping Clouds

November 3, 2007 – 1:28 pm

 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071102152636.htm
ScienceDaily (Nov. 2, 2007) — The widely accepted (albeit unproven) theory that manmade global warming will accelerate itself by creating more heat-trapping clouds is challenged this month in new research from The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Instead of creating more clouds, individual tropical warming cycles that served as proxies for global warming saw a decrease [...]

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