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Friday, April 30, 2010

Picking Nature's Cherry

COMMENT: What makes this newsworthy..."Sea ice loss key to Arctic warming: study" (based on a report in Nature) and this not "Soil microbes produce less atmospheric CO2 than expected with climate warming" (based on a report in Nature Geoscience)?

Wonder why this fact wasn't mentioned in the piece on sea ice:Arctic sea ice above "normal" see WUWT).

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