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 You exhale CO2. 
These charts are heavily manipulated and used as scare-tactic tools for grants and regulations. 
I worked in meteorology. It became a highly politicized field. If you wanted to keep your job or get promoted (or hired, you must subscribe to the AGW claim).  If you tried to show real data and examine it with the scientific method, you were discredited in the community.