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  • Atmospheric CO2 Level Tops 400 ppm
    During the week of May 13th, the CO2 level at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii topped 400 ppm rep...Read more

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    Atmospheric CO2 Level Tops 400 ppm

    During the week of May 13th, the CO2 level at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii topped 400 ppm repeatedly. Daily levels of CO2 can vary due to weather, and there are seasonal trends as well. The level of atmospheric greenhouse gases continues to increase, now over 120 ppm since the Industrial Revolution began. For more on the Keeling Curve, see http://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/. Find out more about greenhouse gases and warming.
  • Massive Tornado Outbreak on Tornado Alley
    The week of May 19 brings dozens of tornadoes to Tornado Alley in the states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Io...Read more

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    Massive Tornado Outbreak on Tornado Alley

    The week of May 19 brings dozens of tornadoes to Tornado Alley in the states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. On May 20th, a massive tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, devastating communities - destroying over 100 homes and hitting two elementary schools and a hospital - with many casualties and deaths. Our thoughts are with our friends and colleagues suffering from these storms. For more on the May 20th storms, see the NOAA Storm Prediction Center Storm Report.
  • Kansas Legislator Proposes Bill to Outlaw Sustainability Education
    A bill has been introduced in the Kansas legislature this week that would prohibit the promotion of ...Read more

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    Kansas Legislator Proposes Bill to Outlaw Sustainability Education

    A bill has been introduced in the Kansas legislature this week that would prohibit the promotion of sustainability. Here is a link to the one-page bill: http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2013_14/measures/documents/hb2366_00_0000.pdf. See report on Bloomberg News.

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Recent Solar System News stories:

 08/12/10 Extended Period of Lower Solar Activity Linked to Changes in Sun's Conveyor Belt

 05/13/10 Silver Tells a Story of Early Earth: Water Here Since Planet's Very Early Days

 08/27/09 Connections among Solar Cycle, Stratosphere and Ocean Discovered

 08/21/09 Impact on Jupiter - July 2009

 08/16/09 Solar Cycle Linked to Global Climate

 06/26/09 Where have all the sunspots gone?

 06/18/09 Scientists Create First Comprehensive Computer Model of Sunspots

 10/29/07 Comet Holmes

 10/24/07 Solar Telescope Reaches 120,000 Feet on Jumbo-Jet-Sized Balloon

 11/06/06 Mercury Transit on November 8, 2006

 08/24/06 Pluto demoted - no longer a Planet!

 01/11/06 Stardust returns - with comet dust!

 09/22/05 Mars Opposition on October 30, 2005

 03/18/05 Sun-Earth Day 2005 (March 20, 2005)

 01/14/05 Deep Impact Launch

 12/30/04 Huygens probe on its way to Titan

 10/28/04 Cassini Titan Flyby in October 2004

 10/27/04 Lunar Eclipse in October 2004

 10/01/04 Asteroid Toutatis Passes Near Earth

 06/30/04 Cassini arrives at Saturn

 06/11/04 Cassini approaches Saturn's moon Phoebe

 06/02/04 Venus Transit in June 2004

 04/21/04 Hubble Servicing Mission Canceled

 03/17/04 New planetoid named Sedna discovered

 02/26/04 Rosetta ready to go!

 01/15/04 Rosetta mission prepares for launch

 01/14/04 A Rover on the Red Planet! Spirit Will Look at the Geology of Mars

 10/31/03 New Moons of Uranus and Neptune

 10/24/03 Space weather storms from the Sun

 09/19/03 Galileo Reaches the End of its Road

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