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Growing Arctic carbon emissions could go unobserved
Description: A new study has found that in at least part of the Arctic, scientists are not doing as good a job of detecting changes in carbon dioxide during the long, dark winter months as they are at monitoring changes during the short summer. That's a concern, because growing Arctic plants can act as a brake on global warming rates by removing carbon from the atmosphere, but increasing cold-season emissions could overwhelm the braking effect and accelerate global warming. [Source: NASA Climate Change News]
URL: http://climate.nasa.gov/news/2456/growing-arctic-carbon-emissions-could-go-unobserved/
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Source: NASA Climate Change News
Publish Date: 6/27/2016
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