Missing Carbon: CO2 Growth in the last 400,000 Years

  • Released Saturday, December 31, 2005
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The animation shows a graph of carbon dioxide (on the y-axis) versus time (on the x-axis). First data is shown from about the last 400,000 years. Next, this graph slides to the left and a new graph slides on showing carbon dioxide from the last 1000 years. NOTE: the y-axis scale remains the same. Finally, a graph showing carbon dioxide from 1980 to 2005 is shown. The industrial revolution is shown as a blue line. Lake Vostok ice cores provide data from about 400,000 BC to about 4000 BC; Law Dome ice cores provide data from 1010 AD to 1975 AD; Mauna Loa observations provide data from 1980 to 2005.

Carbon Dioxide graphs from the last 400,000; 1000; and 25 year ranges

Carbon Dioxide graph from the last 400,000 years

Carbon Dioxide graph from the last 400,000 years

Carbon Dioxide graph from the last 1000 years (includes last 400,000 year graph)

Carbon Dioxide graph from the last 1000 years (includes last 400,000 year graph)

Carbon Dioxide graph from the last 25 year (includes last 400,000 and 1000 year graphs)

Carbon Dioxide graph from the last 25 year (includes last 400,000 and 1000 year graphs)

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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