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Geographic Perspective “Stabilizing Climate”
On a daily basis everything we do relies on energy, fossil fuels. One example is if you want to buy a bagel, in order to get that you have to go to the store in your car and come back home, which emits a lot of fossil fuel that is then emitted into the 80% of the atmosphere.CO2 has been a remaining problem for a long time now. Since, 1976 every decade has become warmer than the previous one, because when carbon dioxide if released into the atmosphere climate change happens which results in higher temperatures. In 2013 carbon dioxide reached 400 ppm and dropped to around the 390's ppm as the summer progressed in Mauna Loa in Hawai’i. Today the carbon dioxide concentration is at 406 ppm. If we don’t

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