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Which emits more carbon dioxide: volcanoes or human activities?
Description: Human activities emit 60 or more times the amount of carbon dioxide released by volcanoes each year. Large, violent eruptions may match the rate of human emissions for the few hours that they last, but they are too rare and fleeting to rival humanity's annual emissions. In fact, several individual U.S. states emit more carbon dioxide in a year than all the volcanoes on the planet combined do. [Source: NOAA Climate.gov]
URL: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities
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Source: NOAA Climate.gov
Publish Date: 6/15/2016
Reading Level: Basic
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