The link between carbon emissions and climate change
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According to the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from the United Nations climate change task force, it is recommended that six gigatons of carbon dioxide be removed from the atmosphere by 2050. To put that in perspective: that's the weight of 60,000 fully-loaded U.S. aircraft carriers. We learned why we need to remove carbon dioxide from our atmosphere by talking with Donald Wuebbles, emeritus professor in the Department of Climate, Meteorology, and Atmospheric Sciences at the University Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Interview by Maddie Stover, doctoral student in physics and Steve Nesbitt, professor of Climate, Meteorology, and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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