UpbeatA decade of watching the planet breathe, sharpened: NASA's carbon record from space just got an upgrade
Every day, NASA's two Orbiting Carbon Observatory instruments capture more than a million measurements of sunlight bouncing off Earth — a way of reading how much carbon dioxide hangs in the air above cities, forests and whole continents. Researchers led by Thomas E. Taylor have now rebuilt that record with improved processing, producing a cleaner, publicly available history stretching from September 2014 to today. Published in Earth and Space Science, the upgraded record helps scientists track how carbon moves around the planet — and judge whether climate policies are actually working.
The upbeat factoryou cannot fix what you cannot measure — and the planet's carbon ledger just became much easier to read.
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