{"id":786338,"date":"2024-07-25T11:45:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T16:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=786338"},"modified":"2024-07-25T11:45:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T16:45:56","slug":"our-carbon-dioxide-emissions-have-a-mesmerizing-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=786338","title":{"rendered":"Our Carbon Dioxide Emissions Have a Mesmerizing Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Our CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions are warming the planet and making life uncomfortable and even unbearable in some regions. In July, the planet set consecutive records for the hottest day. <\/p>\n<p>NASA is mapping our emissions, and while what they show us isn\u2019t uplifting, it is visually appealing in a ghoulish way. Maybe the combination of visual appeal and ghoulishness will build momentum in the fight against climate change. <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-167872\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Scientific Visualization Studio has released a video showing how wind and air currents pushed CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions around Earth\u2019s atmosphere from January to March 2020. The video\u2019s high-resolution zooms in and sees individual sources of CO2, including power plants and forest fires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs policymakers and as scientists, we\u2019re trying to account for where carbon comes from and how that impacts the planet,\u201d said climate scientist Lesley Ott at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. \u201cYou see here how everything is interconnected by these different weather patterns.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Model Behavior: Visualizing Global Carbon Dioxide\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zZ-lMDtiI-k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Credit: NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The video starkly shows that it doesn\u2019t matter where CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions come from; we all deal with the outcomes. Yet there are some interesting global differences.<\/p>\n<p>Above the USA, South Asia, and China, most of the carbon comes from industry, power plants, and transportation. But over Africa and South America, most of the emissions come from burning, including forest fires, agricultural burning, and land clearing. Emissions also come from fossil fuels like oil and coal. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/pkPTpvDD1sUKL7ZHKr\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"giphy-embed\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>via GIPHY<\/p>\n<p>The image pulses for a couple of reasons. Forest fires tend to flare during the day and then slow down at night. Also, trees and plants photosynthesize during the day, releasing oxygen and absorbing CO2. The land masses and the oceans act as carbon sinks. <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more pulsing in South America and the tropics because the data was collected during their growing season. <\/p>\n<p>In this version, the video zooms in on the USA, showing individual CO<sub>2<\/sub> sources.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/l37UqdGvBQYQ3cu5hj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"giphy-embed\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>via GIPHY<\/p>\n<p>These visualizations are based on GEOS, the Goddard Earth Observing System. GEOS is an integrated system for modelling Earth\u2019s coupled atmosphere, ocean, and land systems. NASA calls it a \u201chigh-resolution weather analysis model,\u201d and it uses supercomputers to show what\u2019s happening in the atmosphere. GEOS is based on billions of data points, including data from the Terra satellite\u2019s MODIS and the Suomi-NPP satellite\u2019s VIIRS instruments. GEOS has a resolution that\u2019s more than 100 times greater than typical weather models. <\/p>\n<p>Interested users can download the visualizations at the Scientific Visualization Studio. <\/p>\n<p>Image Credit for all videos, images, and clips: NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-24000880-167872-66a27eaf06b70\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=13.2#blog_id=24000880&amp;post_id=167872&amp;origin=www.universetoday.com&amp;obj_id=24000880-167872-66a27eaf06b70&amp;n=1\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-24000880-167872-66a27eaf06b70\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/167872\/our-carbon-dioxide-emissions-have-a-mesmerizing-side\/?rand=772204\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our CO2 emissions are warming the planet and making life uncomfortable and even unbearable in some regions. 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