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The increased use of fossil fuels is providing an intense unnatural source of CO2 to the atmosphere (24). That the level of CO2 has been rising rapidly in the atmosphere (Figures 1a, 1b) must mean that other components of the terrestrial biogeochemical system have not fully taken up the new CO2 (25). We can see from Figure 1c that the seasonally adjusted trends of Mauna Loa and Antarctica indicate that the CO2 seems to be well mixed with about 5% increase over a twenty year period. It has been estimated that the CO2 concentration at the beginning of the industrial revolution, about 130 years ago, was 290 ppm, while projections for the future are for 365–395 ppm by the year 2000 and for a doubling by the mid twenty-first century (26).
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Smagorinsky, J. (1981). CO2 and Climate - A Continuing Story. In: Berger, A. (eds) Climatic Variations and Variability: Facts and Theories. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8514-8_37
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