Global
Warming CO2 Flow Diagram
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How To Read The Diagram
The basic
elements are shown here but without
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2. The downward green arrow shows how much fossil fuel CO2 land plants and oceans were able to remove from the atmosphere during that same year. This arrow is the key that unlocks energy independence.
3. The horizontal red line shows how much excess CO2 is left over in the atmosphere every year. It is Global Warming's annual Growth.
4. The downward blue arrow shows what we have to do to enable nature to repair the environment.
5. The horizontal green line is the annual ZERO GLOBAL WARMING line. If we can get the red line below the green line, we are rolling Global Warming backwards.
IN COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WORDS: The horizontal red line is the “Global Warming Growth” meter. The higher it is above the horizontal green “zero” line, the worse things are. If the red line is on the green line, Global Warming’s growth has been halted. If the red line is below the green line, Global Warming has been reversed and the atmosphere is being repaired to some extent by Mother Nature.
Reducing the length of the red up arrow is what it is all about.
Your body needs the right balance of many trace chemicals to be healthy. Like your body, our living planet is a complex and delicate system, using a little CO2 to capture a little of the sun's heat. Without this trace amount of CO2, the world's average temperature would be zero degrees F. A little CO2 in the air goes a very long way when heating Planet Earth.
CO2 needs to be a TRACE gas in the atmosphere at
around 300 ppm (parts per million) to keep the world's temperature in
normal balance. As long as modern man's annual production of fossil fuel CO2
was less than 20 billion tons per year, nature was able to keep CO2
in the 300 ppm range through plant growth and water respiration.
Notice the lengths of the lines. They loosely mirror each other because a particular fossil fuel's nature has fostered its use for certain applications.