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Re:Show HN: Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbo... by mturmon on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:12AM (#16333104)
You might want to clarify that the data you're plotting are from a ground-based station on Mauna Loa. One symptom of this is that your plot does not have a title or y-axis label.

Similarly, the "global" CO2 number you display as text may be (?) an average of selected ground-based stations.

CO2 varies with altitude, and with time and spatially, of course. The ground-based stations give part of the picture, but there are also various total-column CO2 measurements, prominently from TCCON (http://tccon.ornl.gov/), and remote-sensing measurements (https://co2.jpl.nasa.gov/).

This is why clarifying what you mean by "global CO2" is important. In the light of the sophistication of what's out there, it might be good to think about where you're trying to add value.

Re:Show HN: Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbo... by titojankowski on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:20AM (#16333222)
Great suggestion, thanks! We will expand upon that in our Data Sources section, and also improve the labeling on the graph.
Re:Show HN: Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbo... by mturmon on Thursday February 08, 2018 @01:41PM (#16334443)
Oops, the TCCON link I gave is dead. Use instead: https://tccon-wiki.caltech.edu, or http://www.ndsc.ncep.noaa.gov.
Re:Show HN: Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbo... by yakitori on Thursday February 08, 2018 @02:16PM (#16334708)
The domain is "carbondoomsday". Expecting reliable objective anything from such a site is naive.
Re:Show HN: Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbo... by titojankowski on Thursday February 08, 2018 @02:22PM (#16334783)
We chose "carbondoomsday" to be provocative, and to push into a silly level of seriousness about climate change. Similar to http://blog.ycombinator.com/why-toys/
Re:Show HN: Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbo... by mirimir on Thursday February 08, 2018 @04:48PM (#16335876)
Sometimes, faced with a fate such as this, all one can do is laugh.
Re:Show HN: Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbo... by bhhaskin on Thursday February 08, 2018 @04:39PM (#16335811)
Why not let the data speak for itself? To be honest the "provocative" tone you take makes me trust you a lot less.