Carbon Cycle Live Shots

  • Released Thursday, November 19, 2015
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Promo video featuring Dr. Carlos Del Castillo

Carbon dioxide is vital for life on Earth, but an overload of the greenhouse gas is driving one of the most serious problems facing our planet: climate change. With NASA’s fleet of satellites including NASA’s new experimental Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), scientists now have a more complete picture of how Earth is changing as carbon dioxide levels rise.
Join NASA scientists on Friday, Nov. 20th from 6:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EST and again from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST to see NASA’s first-ever global view tracking carbon dioxide levels all the way from the top of the atmosphere to Earth’s surface. Find out how these results are helping us understand how humans are changing the climate, and what it means for our future. Rising levels of carbon dioxide, which acts as a blanket trapping heat in our atmosphere, are already causing major changes to our climate -- from rising sea levels to the fact that 10 of the warmest years on record happened in the last 15 years.

For more information see:
"A Breathing Planet, Off Balance."

Additional videos of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite.

B-roll for Carbon Live Shot includes:

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Beauty animation of OCO2 satellite

NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) temperature data, shows warming

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Data from new OCO2 satellite

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Yearly cycle of Earth’s biosphere

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Fleet of NASA’s earth observing satellites

Carbon dioxide model

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NASA URL and twitter

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OCO beauty animation longer version

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NASA video from a recent ground campaign in Greenland

Dr. Jeremy Werdell social media promo

Dr. Peter Griffith canned interview

Dr. Lesley Ott social media promo

For More Information

See nasa.gov/earth

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

This page was originally published on Thursday, November 19, 2015.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:49 PM EDT.

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