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We may be allies on some really big things, but the British government’s top science advisor isn’t so keen on U.S. policy with respect to climate change, accordng to the Independent: Britain has attacked President George Bush’s administration for failing to take action on global warming, as part of an intensifying drive to get the …

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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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