| object itself; the ratio between the size of something real and that of a model or representation of it. If the CO2 line in the NOAA’s graph was accurately scaled (proportional) the slope (y/x) of that line would equal the actual rate of increase in CO2 per unit time.* They are not even remotely close to being equal. CO2’s rate of increase from the data is .0000014 per year [(.000387 – .000316)/(2009-1959)]. CO2’s rate of increase from the graph, if estimated from the line’s rise over run, is about .666 (2/3), approximately 475,000 times (.666/.0000014) greater than the actual CO2 rate of increase. *Proportion (mathematics): a relation of four quantities such that the first divided by the second is equal to the third divided by the fourth; the equality of ratios. .
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