What If Carbon Dioxide Pollution Was Solid Carbon Chunks? I NOVA I PBS
Carbon dioxide is an odorless, invisible gas. If we could see that carbon as a solid material on the ground, that might change our perspective on the amount of carbon we emit into the atmosphere. Play NOVA’s Polar Lab to see what effects all that CO2 is having on our planet’s poles: https://to.pbs.org/2In6XI4
Hosted by: Caitlin Saks
Production by: Ari Daniel & Lorena Lyon
Camera: Emily Zendt
NOVA Labs Editorial Director: David Condon
Additional Visuals: Videoblocks
Music: APM
© WGBH Educational Foundation 2020
@scottweisel3640
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 pm
Humans don’t “produce” carbon any more than a volcano does. CO2 is a byproduct of human existence and has been for millennia. It is a problem that must be solved in a way that does not limit human freedom. Unfortunately, most proposed solutions are authoritarian, run by tyrants in lab coats.
@KonaBalona
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 pm
LIES co is not co2 ….GITMO for the liars
@jakejacobs1227
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 pm
The narrator, Caitlin Saks, is not a scientist but a media producer by education and profession. She reveals her bias, ignorance of science, and lack of critical thinking at 00:30 when she states that atmospheric carbon comes "mainly all the carbon-based fuels we humans burn." Not true. Consider the earth's carbon cycle and that anthropogenic sources are a minor fraction of global carbon emissions. Saks may correctly claim that fossil fuel burning annually contributes 12.5 billion tons to the atmosphere but that pales in comparison to the annual 439 gigatons contributed by natural terrestrial sources in the carbon cycle. PBS Nova gets it wrong and misses the real existential threat to life on our planet. I welcome her rebuttal.
@beyondnature1980
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 pm
Climate change or Humans changing the climate?
@dankole307
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 pm
Commie propaganda looking for a money grab. New carbon tax? Don't talk to the free world. Talk to china and india. They are by far the worst polluters. Artic ice is as large as has been in the last 100 years. Lying lefties being payed off again.
@timmelcer3094
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 pm
YaHuWaH resist the proud ! HalleluYaH 🤗
@Erik-rp1hi
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 pm
Yea but if the mile high carbon was the density of a neutron star it would be the size of a sugar cube.
@kevinm3751
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 pm
So if we are to believe this ignorance and we in fact can prove our arrogance by reducing the CO2, what then happens to all the plant life on the planet that cant thrive or live without it? Seems to me everyone is jumping on this carbon dioxide is poison carnival ride without really knowing the facts and the science behind it. Then there is the claim in the 70s where the same things they are claiming today are causing excess CO2 was in fact creating carbon monoxide (CO), which we know for fact is bad for us, plants and every other living thing on earth and then there was the ozone scare claiming aerosoles were to blame for the rise in temperature. So whats next, because we seem to be regressing and the next thing these morons will try and tell us is that air is bad!
@MachineHeadDissent
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 pm
And that’s just China…
@mybackhurts7020
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 pm
So if we’re destroying this planet it means that we’re not supposed to be here? Because other plants and animals and organisms have changed the planet before but we call it natural
Do you believe in Aliens?
@dreynolds923
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 pm
Need to include the marine shipping using Bunker Fuels = filthy air.
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