Tag: Carbon Dioxide
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Swinging CO2 Levels Show The Earth Is ‘Breathing’ More Deeply
By Richard Harris | NPR Plant life on our planet soaks up a fair amount of the carbon dioxide that pours out of our tailpipes and smokestacks. Plants take it up during the summer and return some of it to the air in the winter. And a new study shows that those “breaths” have gotten…
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The Key to How Earth Will Respond to Greenhouse Gases is the Past
Richard Harris at NPR notes that the best way to predict how the earth will respond to all the carbon dioxide humans are putting into the atmosphere is to look at the past: About 10 million years after the dinosaurs died out, the Earth suffered another huge ecological shock: Carbon dioxide levels in the air…
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