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Posted by James Hrynyshyn on October 26, 2011
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Just a reminder of what’s going on.

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  1. #1 Clark Meyer
    October 27, 2011

    Ok, so the y axis is latitude . . . and it looks like our official current level of atmospheric CO2 is a reading from Antarctica? Never knew that. The large-scale “breathing” on the right, I take it, is an indicator of seasonal sequestration and release by vegetation in the northern hemisphere. What about the individual jumps and dips, the movements on the right-hand side which resemble pistons?

  2. #2 colinc
    October 27, 2011

    Thanks! :) That is perhaps the best animation on the subject I have ever seen. However, it may have been better if it had gone back to the origins of the PETM to depict the exceedingly greater rate of atmospheric-CO2 accumulation we are currently witnessing. It is precisely that “rate-differential” that, in my case, spurs sphincter spasms.

  3. #3 Clark Meyer
    October 28, 2011

    Oh, look at that. I damn well know my x axis from my y axis (re comment above). It was late, I guess. But I still wonder about the piston-like movement on the right side of the graph over time.

  4. #4 O Wehmanen
    October 28, 2011

    The science blogs stuff on the right side of the screen
    COVERS the good stuff for the last part of the show.
    I cannot make it go away.

    BUMMER!

  5. #5 Peter Bellin
    October 29, 2011

    This version ‘rocks’ – set to music:
    http://youtu.be/KYLGBIiq6Wg

  6. #6 Ciwan
    October 30, 2011

    Thanks for this.