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Volcanoes versus humans

A listener asks if the volcano Mount Etna produces more carbon emissions than humans after she saw a post on Facebook that made that claim. We take a deeper look at carbon dioxide numbers with climate scientist Laura Wilcox and volcanologist Mike Burton.

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Tue 4 Jun 2019 01:50GMT
BBC World Service

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