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NASA | A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2

NASA Goddard · demo · Watch on YouTube

Climate science & climate changeData visualization & information design

What it is

A short NASA Goddard visualization from the GEOS-5 model showing a year of atmospheric carbon dioxide moving around the globe. It shows plumes from sources, hemispheric differences and seasonal swings as plants grow and die back.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters use it as a vivid illustration of how CO2 is distributed and how vegetation absorbs it seasonally.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “it was eye opening for me, and seemed obvious upon seeing that video”

    Time-lapse CO2 heatmap showing forests scrubbing CO2 seasonally

    tafurnace, 2020-01 · Strong recommendation · in “A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: carbon dioxide, climate model, nasa, seasonal cycle, data visualization

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