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NOAA's annual State of the Climate Report shows the past decade as the warmest on recordThe annual State of the Climate report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) states the evidence is unmistakable that we live in a warming world, with the past decade the warmest on record.

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Reducing soot emissions key to reducing Arctic sea ice meltThe best way to slow the rapid decline in Arctic sea ice is to reduce soot emissions from burning fossil fuels, wood, and dung. This is the conclusion of a Stanford University study published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres).

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Scientists at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center published research last week in the Journal of Geophysical Research based on satellite microwave data of seasonal Arctic ice thaw from 1970 to 2009. The study indicates the seasonal Arctic sea ice melt melt season is now about 20 days longer than it was 30 years ago.

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Arctic Sea Ice MeltCambridge professor Peter Wadhams made headlines yesterday when he said that data gathered from British explorer Pen Hadlow’s Arctic trek, called the Catlin Ice Survey,  shows that Arctic summers will be entirely ice-free by 2020.

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Record ocean surface temperatures for July

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Studies from NASA, NOAA, and the National Snow and Ice Data Center show a record June for global sea surface temperatures, as well as continued deterioration of Arctic sea ice.

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The poles are warming at least twice as fast as the rest of the globe, what immediate and long-term actions must we take to mitigate the worst consequences of climate change?