Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere: what fills the pool, what drains it
About this model
This model shows carbon dioxide as a pool. Two producers, China and the US in this sketch, add CO2 to the atmosphere every year, and the Amazon rainforest absorbs a share of it, so the pool keeps growing whenever emissions exceed absorption. On the Scenarios stage, move the Lever "Annual emissions per country" and see where the atmosphere pool ends up after 30 years. The numbers are illustrative, not a climate forecast. Inspired by What is Systems Thinking? by Prof. Edward Castronova: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su8r4YKX_ls