A year of pollution in only a minute

As if the northern hemisphere was in flames, this shows the cloud of carbon dioxide (CO2) covering the atmosphere over North America, Europe and Asia. The supercomputers of the NASA shows us a year of evolution of this gas, the more important greenhouse from human activity. The Earth is not able to absorb the half of these emissions and stays in the atmosphere, contributing decisively to the increase in global temperatures in the long term.

The video compresses a year of data (2006, specifically) in a few minutes of images in which we see the CO2 cover much of the atmosphere to transmit significantly in spring when it reaches the photosynthesis in the green regions of the north. In this way, the simulation perfectly illustrates the differences in the levels of carbon dioxide in the northern hemispheres (densely populated and industrialized) and south, as well as changes in the concentrations of carbon dioxide in the world during the seasons.