Super-size deposits of frozen carbon threat to climate change


	Super-size deposits of frozen carbon threat to climate change

JICWyllie

7-1-2009 6:25 AM

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1-climate change, 1-emmisions, 2-increase, 2-record, 2-risks, 3-reported, 3-research, 4-arctic, 4-intl

JICWyllie says:

This data would make yet another hockey stick graph!

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