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The Boston Globe has an interesting photo essay showing the Gulf of Mexico coast just after the BP oil spill and on the first anniversary of the spill - Gulf oil spill one year later. Looks like there is still plenty of oil floating around...

Ian McPherson points to this recent video from NASA on global temperatures - NASA finds 2011 9th warmest year on record.

The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. Nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000.