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Volcanoes versus humans

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Does Mount Etna produce more carbon emissions than humans? We check the numbers.

Does Europe’s most active volcano, Mount Etna, produces more carbon dioxide than humans?  A listener asks us to investigate after she saw a post on Facebook making that claim.

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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