NASA: Keeping Up With Carbon [720p]

Carbon is all around us. This unique atom is the basic building block of life, and its compounds form solids, liquids, or gases. Carbon helps form the bodies of living organisms; it dissolves in the ocean; mixes in the atmosphere; and can be stored in the crust of the planet. A carbon atom could spend millions of years moving through this complex cycle. The ocean plays the most critical role in regulating Earth's carbon balance, and understanding how the carbon cycle is changing is key to understanding Earth's changing climate.

Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

[alex_birch]

Answer 1: 0:28 - 0:33
Answer 2: 0:40 - 0:47
Answers 3-5: 0:48 - 1:03
Answers 6-9: 1:12 - 2:54
Answer 10: 2:57 - 3:11
Answer 11: 3:15 - 3:25
Answer 12: 3:52 - 4:50
rest is on your own

[laurabelle]

I'm confused. The guy talking said as oceans get warmer, they will hold less carbon dioxide thus more stays in the atmosphere. The lady talking said the more carbon dioxide the ocean stores, the more acidic it becomes, which is bad for marine life. So do we want oceans storing carbon dioxide or not?

[russfluhr]

i have to do a research report on this, thank you

[mzmizfit]

that video was great. i learned things about the ocean and carbon, thanks :)

[TomtoMuncher]

Epic vid bro, cant wait for future uploads

[thnx]

at least im still older than the video

[summerwine]

is that caption a reference to keeping up with the kardashians?

[duminduherath]

Just wanted a clarification, as you point out with the rise of temperature oceans ability to store Carbon is less, then on the other hand your are talking about absorbing more Carbon by the oceans and making it acidic and not favourable to marine life..these two points are quite contradictory to my oceans lose some ability to store Carbon when temperature rises I guess this would make oceans less acidic in the future.

[friednoodles]

we are all screwed well nice nkowin you all

[fleagalisyourdaddy]

Great video, but I'd like to point out a common factual inaccuracy. The greenhouse gasses up in the atmosphere DO NOT act like a blanket, and they DO NOT trap the CO2 in the atmosphere. The big mass of greenhouse gasses takes in the CO2 and then releases it in every direction. EVERY direction, including away from Earth. So please, if you hear someone say that, do not remember that as a true fact. You may say to me "Well if NASA says so, then you're wrong, " but no, I'm not. I understand that NASA probably made this video a while ago, and they did not know about this yet.

[jordan]

Still don't understand how carbon cycle goes...

[gyddrftggggvbhf]

"Our oceans are becoming saturated with CO2 - acidification is already killing coral reefs" - The level of atmospheric CO2 in the Cretaceous period was over 1000ppm, as far as I can ascertain. This would, by alarmist logic, have acidified the oceans. How, then, did all that chalk and limestone form after which the period is named?

[alyssakruse]

this video is a great example of bullshit in school :)

[zombieseezombiedo]

This coming from a "skeptic" but the presentation is fing great!

What adds to my skepticism is our concerned governments dissconcern with CO2 climate change.

Most prominent example being the denial of Toronto citizens access to community gardens by cutting their number by more than half in the last decades.

All these 'eletes' who claim to be concerned with the environment and such keep on fucking it when it profits them... Have you seen my carbon footprint? Perhaps get a magnifying glass.

[Moussa]

Who here goes to uic and takes EAES 101? Lmfao