Harry Stevens: For my Climate Lab column, I made an animation showing how carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere over the course of a year. You can see emissions from fossil fuels, fires, land, and ocean. 🌎 Give it a spin here: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

For my Climate Lab column, I made an animation showing how carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere over the course of a year. You can see emissions from fossil fuels, fires, land, and ocean. 🌎 Give it a spin here: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Analysis | Watch how carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere over one yearwww.washingtonpost.com Two hundred years after the discovery of the greenhouse effect, a new animation of our atmosphere shows how humans add more carbon dioxide than Earth can absorb.

These data were produced by NASA for the year 2021. You can see fossil fuel emissions over China and fires in Africa. You can see how CO2 spreads to the southern hemisphere from the north, how it spreads slower to high elevations. Lots of cool details. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Analysis | Watch how carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere over one yearwww.washingtonpost.com Two hundred years after the discovery of the greenhouse effect, a new animation of our atmosphere shows how humans add more carbon dioxide than Earth can absorb.

The land and ocean together absorb about half of human emissions every year, helping slow global warming. But by the end of the year, for every million molecules of air, there are about 2.5 extra molecules of CO2. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I posted code and data sources on Observable. Here's how to make the map raster: observablehq.com/@climatelab/... Here's the chart: observablehq.com/@climatelab/...

The Climate Lab column posts every other Wednesday (sorry for the day delay on this one). For more cool graphics about the planet Earth, sign up here: www.washingtonpost.com/people/harry...

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