Seeing CO2 at Skeptical Science

Peter Hogarth, posting at the climate change website, Skeptical Science, gathers what he considers some of the more promising graphics and animations that scientists have been trying out when it comes to atmospheric CO2.   (This is an update on an earlier post on the topic "Visualizations of CO2 levels and CO2 emissions" from February this year.)  The idea is to more vividly represent the problem of CO2 and the heat-trapping blanket that we are forming with our emissions.

When it comes to Global Warming, helping the public grasp just what is happening is one of the great challenges.  It would be fascinating to put some of these approaches into field testing to see how they could be refined or adapted to communications for the average person.