Watch Carbon Dioxide Move Through Earth’s Atmosphere | NASA

Sobering. Mesmerizing. This helps so much in understanding the problem. I think one of the biggest things that helps that they don’t really mention is the compression of time. These visualizations are something like a day per second. The scale of the problem is sometimes difficult to comprehend (which I realize that phrase alone is a cliche, but it’s the most accurate way to say it), but by compressing the scale a little bit—–time––you can see this amazingly big ecosystem look like something you may have seen before, maybe another time-lapse video. And that comparative nature helps to understand what’s happening, and thus, what must be done.