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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Watch One Year Of Carbon Emissions Take Over The Planet [Watch (HLS stream): Watch One Year Of Carbon Emissions Take Over The Planet](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/cBbZGKG0.m3u8) (2:32)  _Published 2023-06-29. It’s hard to miss something that weighs 37 billion tons—especially when it’s all around us. Thirty-seven billion tons is the amount of fossil-fuel-related carbon dioxide humans release into the atmosphere every year. We see the damage it does everywhere—from heat waves to floods to droughts to wildfires and more. But the CO2 itself? Entirely invisible. 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New video, NASA has revealed the release and circulation of human produce carbon dioxide for the entirety of the Year. 2021, scientists Drew their data partly from observations made by weather satellites and partly by earth-based. Monitoring of known greenhouse gas, emitters industrial areas in the developed World in particular. The most dramatic take away from the outsized role. The Northern Hemisphere plays in the global spread of greenhouse gases. Compared to the far less blameworthy South video, unspools over the course of the year. And it's not until June that the south is truly shrouded in the north city missions. Takes that long partly because the equator operates as an atmospheric burner with hot air rising from the earth midline slowly north-south circulation. Ultimately however, those billions of tons of carbon dioxide blow past is natural stop sign and cover this house as badly as the North. In the first half of the year before they are obscured by CO2 Australia Africa and South America appear to flicker on and off from green to a neutral gray. That represents plant life absorbing carbon dioxide during the day and release unit in a sort of vegetable respiration at night. If there is any good news in, both the data and the video, it's that not all of the CO2 tonnage humans pour into the sky, stays there about half of the emissions are taken by the land and the oceans, which act, as carbon sinks in training greenhouse-gas in preventing it from accelerating climate change, even further. The bad news is that there's at least another thirty seven billion tons coming this year and next year, and the year after that until humans break their fossil-fuel habit. 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