Watch carbon dioxide move through Earth’s atmosphere. With this high resolution model, scientists can see CO2 rising from sources like power plants, fires, and cities and watch how that carbon dioxide spreads via wind patterns and atmospheric circulation.

Why does the map look like it’s pulsing? That’s the day-night cycle. ☀️🌖 Fires flare up daily and die down at night, and plants take up CO2 during the day as they photosynthesize and release it at night through respiration.

Models like this one are important because humans can’t tackle climate change without understanding our carbon dioxide emissions. CO2 is a heat-trapping greenhouse gas and the primary reason for Earth’s rising temperature. Learn more ⬇️

very interesting, but could you make the colour legend somewhat larger, it's really hard to read

i love how you guys color this soot red. btw: information they don't want you to know "(CO2) in the atmosphere is 0.04% or 421 parts per million (ppm) as of May 2022" but without the sensationalism, this is important information.

Too bad NASA Climate Scientists don't study the Sun's effect on climate, or the molten magma making it's way to the surface in both the Atlantic & Pacific. Those models actually affect climate on a scale that makes the CO2 models look like Pin the Tail on the Donkey.

It's a known fact China and India burn more fossil fuels, yet the US shows higher outputs on this. Why is that?

Annnnndd…. This does not prove anything other than graphic artists and produce cgi

C02 is 0.04% of the earths atmosphere? Explain how this image is actually possible in this context?

With respect, How much carbon dioxide and Toxic gas has the war in Ukraine contributed since 2020? Taxes ☝️first.

Greatest graphic of the decade so far.