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The relationship between carbon dioxide and temperature is a two way relationship. The Vostok
graph below showing temperature and carbon dioxide suggests that in some time periods a rise in
temperature proceeds a rise in carbon dioxide and in other time periods the opposite can be
observed. In some places there is as much as an 800 year lag between the two. Nonetheless the
relationship is clear. Sometime an increase in carbon dioxide can lead to an increase in temperature
and other times an increase in temperature can lead to an increase in carbon dioxide.