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Humans and the Global Carbon Cycle: A Faustian Bargain?

September 7, 2007 – 4:38 am

NASA
4.12.07
Carbon, the building block of life, cycles through the land, ocean, atmosphere, and the Earth’s interior, in what is simply called the carbon cycle. As part of the carbon cycle, we breathe fresh oxygen produced when plants take in atmospheric carbon dioxide. We tap into carbon that has been stored in Earth’s geosphere for millions [...]

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CALIPSO’s First Images Offer New Dimension to Air Quality and Climate Research

September 3, 2007 – 10:21 am

NASA
07.24.06
The CALIPSO spacecraft collected its first data recently, a major milestone for one of NASA’s newest satellite missions. CALIPSO, or Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations, seeks to reveal the secrets of clouds and aerosols, tiny particles suspended in the air, enabling scientists to study how they form, evolve and interact and how they [...]

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Global Warming: Still Happening

August 23, 2007 – 4:25 pm

Photo credit: Mixmaster
TreeHugger
Sorry to bust in on your party, climate-change deniers. Even though NASA has admitted that its estimates of average temperatures in the United States needed recalibrating, it doesn’t change the fact that the planet is heating up at a frenetic, unnatural pace.
The corrected data shows that the hottest year in the United States [...]

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