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welcome aboard helicopter flight plx
headed to the west coast of greenland if
you could actually look at the molecules
in the air down below you'd see carbon
dioxide concentrations averaging about
four hundred and twelve parts per
million that is out of every million
molecules of air four hundred and twelve
of them are co2 and that's more than the
planet seen in the last three million
years so where's all that extra carbon
dioxide coming from mainly all the
carbon-based fuels we humans burn for
example think about all the roads and
cars you see every day in every gallon
of gasoline there's about five pounds of
carbon now what does that look like well
imagine that carbon came out of a car's
tailpipe not as invisible carbon dioxide
gas
but as solid chunks of carbon if you add
up all the world's cars they produce
three million tons of carbon every day
and that's just cars when we add in
power plants factories agriculture and
aviation including helicopters like this
one the total carbon released from human
activities in a year is twelve and a
half billion tons enough to leave a pile
of carbon for miles across and over a
mile high this is why scientists say
we've uh shirred in a new geologic age
called the Anthropocene with humans now
altering Earth's climate but what
exactly will all this co2 actually do to
our planet here in Greenland you can see
one of the impacts firsthand now make
sure you buckle your seatbelt because
we're about to land alongside the Yak
absolvent glacier
you