Atlantic Cities  Visualizing a City's Prodigious Carbon
Emissions  This imagined version of New York City may look like
a super-fun ball pit, but diving into it would leave you
coughing and gasping for air.  Created by Carbon Visuals and the
Environmental Defense Fund, the animation has giant blue balls
standing in for New York's greenhouse-gas emissions in 2010 (the
last year data were available). Each sphere represents one ton
of carbon-dioxide vapor. Added up, they represent 54 million
metric tons of climate-toasting chemicals.  The simulation shows
not just the amount but rate of emission as well. Here's how the
creators managed that:  54,349,650 million tons a year = 148,903
tons a day = 6,204 tons an hour = 1.72 tons a second  At
standard pressure and 59 °F a metric ton of carbon dioxide gas
would fill a sphere 33 feet across (density of CO₂ = 1.87 kg/m³:
If this is how New York's emissions actually emerged we would
see one of these spheres emerge every 0.58 seconds.  Don't tear
your head bald of hair j