# Teardown — two centuries of carbon

> 260 annual observations in a 5.8 KB extract; why absence is not zero; and the NO_TIME_COLUMN case where the product declines to state a data age at all.

Source: https://vibedasher.com/showcase/dashboards/two-centuries-of-carbon

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# Two centuries of carbon — what the world burned, and who burned it

CDIAC · 1751–2010 · 260 annual observations

Two and a half centuries of fossil-fuel carbon in 5.8 KB, published public, one query over the credential-free lane.

![A dark dashboard titled "Two centuries of carbon — what the world burned, and who burned it". Three statistic cards read "the mix turned, then turned back" (coal 96.4% to 34.2% to 41.9%), "1979–2000: opposite directions" (+26.0% total against −0.12 t per person) and "half of it is recent" (233 years, then 26). A row of fuel filter chips sits above a stacked area chart of annual emissions in MtC from 1751 to 2010, rising from near zero to roughly 9,000.](https://vibedasher.com/showcase/shots/two-centuries-of-carbon.webp)

A screenshot of the published dashboard, captured from the same URL anybody can open.

Data lane

Query lane

Per view

5.7 KB fetched, 1 extract

Data age

the product states none — this dataset has no date column

Reachability

opens with no account

Measured against the live host, with no credential, on 2026-10-08.

## The question it answers

When did the absolute total and the per-person figure stop telling the same story?

## The data, and over what period

Total fossil-fuel carbon, plus solid, liquid and gas fuel, cement, gas flaring and per capita.

## How it gets its rows

One query, live, in your browser. The rows arrive when you open the page.

## What comes back

260 rows × 8 columns, and every tile comes from it.

## What was hard

per\_capita is absent before 1950. Coerced to zero it draws a line along the floor for two centuries, so the chart leaves a gap instead.

## What happened after the build

Frozen. The record ends in 2010.

## The dashboard itself

[Open the live dashboard](https://share.vibedasher.com/eu/vibedasher/two-centuries-of-carbon?exec=wasm)

![](https://vibedasher.com/showcase/shots/two-centuries-of-carbon.webp)

Still image

The live dashboard loads from the viewer host. Nothing is fetched from it until you ask, so this page does not touch that origin unless you want it to.

Load the dashboard here

https://share.vibedasher.com/eu/vibedasher/two-centuries-of-carbon?exec=wasm

What loads here is the published dashboard, from the same address anybody else would open — not a copy kept by hand. The still above it is a screenshot of that same address.

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