Last Updated on 25/07/2024 by wccexam Desk
NASA has created a new map of the world. It shows the deadly carbon dioxide clouds hovering over the world. If you zoom in on the map, you will see the situation above your city. To create this map, NASA has collected data from January to March 2020.
After zooming in, you will also know whether CO2 is coming out from a power plant. Or from forest fires. Or from cities. Clouds of this deadly gas are spread across the entire atmosphere of the earth. It keeps travelling from one continent to another over the ocean. But where is so much CO2 coming out from in the world.
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Leslie Ott, a climate scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said that China, America and South Asia (which also includes India) emit the most carbon dioxide. The sources of emissions are power plants, industrial areas, cars and trucks.
Somewhere there are forest fires and somewhere forests are being cut down
If we talk about Africa and South America, most of the carbon dioxide emissions there are spreading due to forest fires. The reason for this is land management. Controlled agricultural methods and deforestation. Apart from this, carbon dioxide is also being released due to burning of oil and coal here.
The more CO2 is released, the faster the weather will change
NASA used its Scientific Visualization Studio to create this map i.e. high resolution model. For this, scientists took help of data from Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS). The question is that if so much carbon dioxide is released, the earth’s weather will change. Dangerous weather will come.
Every year the heat is increasing, the reason is CO2
NASA had said that last year was the hottest year in the world. But now this year has also turned out to be hot. The reason for this heat in many places is the high emission of carbon dioxide. In May 2024, the amount of carbon dioxide was recorded at 427 parts per million at some places in the atmosphere. Whereas in the year 1750 it was 278 parts per million.
The atmosphere has been most affected in the last 50 years
This gas is necessary in some quantity, but its quantity in the earth’s atmosphere is constantly increasing. At least in the last 50 years, it has increased a lot. Due to this, the heat is increasing. That is, global warming. Due to which extreme weather events are happening all over the world.