Biology: How Life Works
Biology: How Life Works
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ISBN: 9781319017637
Author: James Morris, Daniel Hartl, Andrew Knoll, Melissa Michael, Robert Lue, Andrew Berry, Andrew Biewener, Brian Farrell, N. Michele Holbrook
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
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Chapter 48.2, Problem 5SAQ
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The presence of CO2 in the atmosphere is higher and increased day by day by the burning of fossil fuels. According to the Keeling curve, the levels of CO2 have increased dramatically over the past 60 years. Apart from natural CO2 emission like volcanos, human are the major contributors to increase CO2 dramatically by burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial revolutions  

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