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Importance of monitoring Earth's air
Russell Schnell said that if countries set requirements to cut carbon dioxide emissions, NOAA’s observatories would serve as a kind of atmospheric fact checker.
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air, atmosphere, changes, collecting, data, measurements, observatories, pacific, russell, schnell, week, years, monitoring, climate
