Carbometer

The carbometer is filled with carbon chips at the beginning of the game. It indicates the "world temperature", but serves as source for the income from black factories at the same time: If you take your income from the carbometer, the temperature rises to "hotter" colours. While in the blue interval the damages resulting from greenhouse cards are relatively small, the costs increase if the yellow, orange and red parts are reached. After every players' turn, some new carbon chips are put on the carbometer. This climate recovery is a simplified version of a carbon sink: Since a part of man-made emissions of carbon dioxide are stored in the ocean or the vegetation, they do not totally account for temperature rise. The strength of the recovery is printed on the carbometer.