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Carbon Dioxide

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The role of CO2 as the climate-regulating greenhouse gas for planet Earth has become evident in recent years.

We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

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Hay, W.W. (2016). Carbon Dioxide . In: Experimenting on a Small Planet. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27404-1_21

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