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There is carbon all around us.

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The trees, grasses, crops,

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all the vegetation and soils on the Earth's surface store carbon.

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About three or four times as much in the atmosphere.

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As a whole, the land surface is absorbing one quarter of the carbon we emit from fossil  fuels.

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Will it continue?

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I'm George Hurtt, professor at University of Maryland

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and leader of NASA's Carbon Monitoring System.

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We are developing technologies to monitor and model carbon with sufficient precision

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to reduce uncertainties and support decision making.

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