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by teraflop 700 days ago
If you try looking at the actual numbers or sketching rough tangent lines, you'll see that your "eyeballing" is misleading you. The graph is not at all linear -- the slope in recent decades is several times steeper than at the beginning of the time interval, as the accompanying caption says.

Perhaps you're looking at the graph on a phone screen, which compresses the scale and de-exaggerates the changes?