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Climate scientists the world over are about to receive a treasure trove of valuable new weather data from an unlikely source: old Royal Navy logbooks. The thousands of logbooks kept by British captains, some dating back to the early 17th century, were discovered by a team of academics and Met Office scientists, reports Times Online's Jonathan Leake.

Old logbooks provide reams of climate data

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The Guardian's John Vidal has the scoop on a leaked UN study that reveals the extent to which previous estimates have low-balled - by almost two-thirds - the amount of emissions produced by the world's shipping fleet. Annual carbon dioxide emissions have now reached a whopping 1.12b tons - almost 4.5% of all global carbon dioxide emissions - a far cry from the 400m tons figure the IPCC had previously pegged.