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Today’s Global Climate Update comes from the icy city of St. Petersburg (you may remember it fondly as Leningrad), where folks are apparently worrying now that they might be swimming in the cold waters of the Gulf of Finland: St. Petersburg may have the same fate as the fairy-tale city of Kitezh that was completely …

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I missed this paper (Nature, subscription required) when it came out last month. It’s pretty interesting. Ruth Curry, from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and her colleagues measured changes in salt and fresh water in the Atlantic: The oceans are a global reservoir and redistribution agent for several important constituents of the Earth’s climate system, …

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For my friends and family in the deep freeze back east (Looks like you’re in a warming trend! Above freezing today at Groton, down the river from my sister’s house!) I’ll point out that the thermometer on my back porch reads 56.8 and I’m wearing shorts this afternoon. update, early evening OK, that was a …

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