A Few New Ways to Look at the World

We have all seen those pic­tures of planet Earth as lit­tle blue and white mar­ble against the back­drop of space and a hun­dred dif­fer­ent maps of the world, but there are a few more images of our home that are worth a look. Earth­Sky recently posted a one-minute video of the his­tory of human global CO2 emis­sions, which is at the same time inter­est­ing and alarm­ing. NASA has released “the most high def­i­n­i­tion image of Earth” ever from a satel­lite. And finally, a beau­ti­fully ren­dered real-time updated map of wind pat­terns across the United States, with some infor­ma­tion about it here.