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On the recordFebruary 24, 2009
over the last 650,000 years, we have had remarkable stability in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere.
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Thomas Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper highlights historical CO2 stability over 650,000 years.

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