Posted on 06/20/2023 9:40:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
(NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio) We know human activity is inflating the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at record rates, restricting the radiation of heat into space and contributing to the overall warming of the planet.
Invisible as they are, the ebb and flow of carbon emissions can be hard to wrap our heads around – but not so with new visualizations released by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.
These jaw-dropping videos demonstrate precisely where the majority of this critical greenhouse gas is being released, and how that changes over the course of a single year.
There are three videos to look at, covering different regions of the world. They show CO2 being released in 2021, with emissions colored orange for fossil fuels, red for burning biomass, green for land ecosystems, and blue for the ocean.
Blue dots show where carbon is largely being absorbed by ocean waters, and green dots by producers on land.
VIDEO AT LINK...........
There are a few particular areas to look out for in the above video: over North America and South America, look out for the pollution hotspot in the northeastern region of the US, and the green pulsing of the Amazon rainforest as the trees absorb carbon during daylight hours.
Note how the color orange dominates the atmosphere, and how the fossil fuel emissions it represents spreads to envelop the entire planet as the months roll by. If you ever needed a stark reminder of the effect of burning coal, gas, and oil, here it is.
"New computer modeling techniques in NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office allow us to dissect our atmosphere and understand some of the major contributors to this runaway insulator," explains NASA in the accompanying blog post.
VIDEO AT LINK............
In this second clip above, featuring Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, you can see higher concentrations of fossil fuel emissions being released from the European nations and Saudi Arabia. There's also a less noticeable cloud of red agricultural burn emissions coming from central Africa.
When it comes to the Asia and Australia video, featured below, a significant amount of pollution obscures Beijing in China. Compare that to the relative lack of fossil fuel emissions from Australia – a country with a relatively low population density.
VIDEO AT LINK.............
Not that it absolves the nation of responsibility, which has the highest coal emissions per capita in the world. Packing Australia's 26-odd million citizens into a single city might give this animation a slightly different look.
What's also quite depressing (and visible in yet another video) is the way land and ocean CO2 exchanges battle to remain balanced in the atmosphere. It's the fossil fuel emissions that tip the CO2 levels above the status quo.
While carbon dioxide accounts for just 0.04 percent of the gases in Earth's atmosphere, it has a significant effect in terms of scattering heat radiation back towards the surface.
Current levels are a smidge under 420 parts per million; a level that might seem low but is higher than it's been for millions of years. It's certainly higher than it's ever been since humans have been around. The trend is only going in one direction too – we should be drastically cutting down on fossil fuel use, but we're not.
All of which means heatwaves, droughts, floods, and storms that are more extreme and more frequent, as well as new climate zones for half the planet, devastating effects on wildlife, and an increased risk of pathogenic disease.
Action can still be taken to mitigate climate change, but the changes need to be big and they need to be quick. Let's hope visualizations like NASA's new videos help to drive home just how much trouble we're in.
So, if what we see on the model is the less than .05% of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, where is the other 99.5% of gasses the atmosphere is composed of shown?
Yeah, there's nothing more frightening than a false color presentation about the 300 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. Thanks Red Badger.
Oh please.
Gimme a break. (To the author, not you RB)
More CO2 encourages plant growth. You don’t like the Greening of the planet?
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?
Now do emissions from the View.
Science Alert! What a catchy name for a website. Once you have a name like that you need alerts, preferably about Science. Usually in Science you don’t start out with words like “we know”. The whole essence of Science is that we don’t really know anything. Everything is a theory and can be disproven by an experiment.
Sure that pic isn’t an xray of Biden’s head showing the hole at the top where his brain escaped?
The Plan
In the beginning was The Plan.
And then came the assumptions.
And the assumptions were without form.
And the plan was without substance.
And darkness came upon the face of the workers.
And they spoke amongst themselves saying:
“It is a crock, and it stinketh mightily.”
And the workers went unto their Supervisors and said,
“It is a pail of dung, and none may abide the odor therefore.”
And the Supervisors went unto their Managers saying,
“It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong,
such that none may abide by it.”
And the Managers went unto their Directors saying,
“It is a vessel for fertilizer, and none can abide by its strength.”
And the Directors spoke amongst themselves, saying to one another,
“It contains that which aids plant growth, and is very strong.”
And the Directors went unto the Vice Presidents saying,
“It promotes growth, and it is very powerful.”
And the Vice Presidents went unto the President saying unto him,
“This new plan will actively promote the growth and vigor
of the company, with very powerful effects.”
And the President looked upon The Plan and saw that it was good.
And the Plan became Policy.
This is how (SH-)IT happens.
To me a nice visualization would be to show China’s disproportionate CO2 contribution., which doesn’t get talked about much and most people are unaware of.
Designed to look like Venus.
The nonsense we are turning into Venus began at NASA.
They failed to mention the air pressure on Venus is equivalent to 3000ft depth in Earth’s ocean.
Add Venus being 30M miles closer to the Sun and you get 900 deg at the surface.
It would never happen on Earth until the Sun starts to expand in a billion years or so.
Biggest vat of bullshit that I’ve ever read.......
Scientific truth, as our masters see it...
Since 1970, the government schools have carefully nurtured low-IQ serfs who believe this crap...
Hard to believe that, pre-1965, the U.S. had a “public” education system that was the envy of the world...
Its elimination has provided, and will continue to provide, to the conversion of a free people into mindless serfs...
The Fabians certainly knew, in the late 1800s, the correct strategy for the eventual destruction of the capitalist American Republic...
Irrelevant. The Satanic Gases can only absorb a limited amount of infrared radiation. That’s why there have been many lulls in heating in spite of huge contemporaneous increases in “emissions”.
Okay… where is the line for the Kool-Aid dispensers…
It’s obviously way past time to deport aliens back to S America and Africa tribal repatriation
That’s what this indicates to me
“We know human activity is inflating the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at record rates, restricting the radiation of heat into space and contributing to the overall warming of the planet.”
Ummm...
No. Our wimpy atmosphere’s ability to retain thermal content is greater than total-vacuum space, but not by much. Our atmosphere has nothing whatever to do with “causing climate”. Climate is a thermodynamic system, and as with all thermodynamic systems, mass is the core of the system, and the thin atmosphere lacks the mass to do anything other than convert the climate to weather and puff it around the planet.
Will someone please call ‘9-1-1’? That publication - “Science Alert” - appears to be an intellectual crime scene.
“Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.” - Robert Heinlein.................
See how that works?
Better yet, show us the visual graphics through every epoch of the Earth's existance.
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