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Human Perturbation of the Global Carbon Budget

www.globalcarbonproject.org

A graph from the Global Carbon Project showing the increasing rate of carbon entering the atmosphere each year, and also the increasing rate at which sinks are absorbing it. The extra absorption isn't as large as the extra sources, and so the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is still increasing.