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NOAA's Patricia Lang prepares to measure methane levels inside a flask that ispart of NOAA's global air sampling network. Such measurements were critical inhelping an international team of scientists understand the oxidizing or cleansing power of the global atmosphere and its sensitivity to natural and human-induced perturbations. Methane levels were a key point of comparison in the new study. (Image credit: NOAA News January 6 2011)