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On the recordDecember 7, 2015
By burning fossil fuels, humans are releasing carbon into the atmosphere that would have otherwise remained locked away.
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

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Peters discusses the certainties of human impact on climate change through fossil fuel use.

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