evidence: Home -- Wissenschaften/Sciences -- Literature -- Globale Erwärmung/Global Warming -- Residence Time of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere [...] "... estimates of the characteristic 'residence time' of a molecule of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere involve a complicated mélange of factors, leading to the conclusion that [...] This calculation completely ignores the ocean. In reality the flow of carbon dioxide into the ocean is about twice as large as the flow into land vegetation. So the lifetime of a carbon dioxide molecule in the atmosphere is really only about five years. Between two jumps into the land vegetation, an average molecule jumps twice into and out of the ocean.