{"id":813,"date":"2009-06-12T08:52:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T08:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2009-06-12T13:49:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T13:49:26","slug":"watch-the-planet-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/watch-the-planet-breathe\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the planet breathe."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes its hard to see the big picture.  Its difficult to step outside ourselves and realise that we are part of something larger than ourselves.  Our plant is a living system and we are an organism on its skin &#8211; one that is rather parasitic at the moment though we could be benign.<\/p>\n<p>To get a view of the living planet see the following report from the Earth Observatory.  The sequence of photos linked shows the planet breathing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-title\">\n<h4>Global Biosphere<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div id=\"slideshow\"><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/biosphere.php\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"series_image\" title=\"Global Biosphere\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2008.jpg?resize=720%2C360\" alt=\"Global Biosphere\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"colorbar\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"images\/biosphere\/seawifs_chlorophyll_palette.png\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/seawifs_chlorophyll_palette.png?resize=540%2C36\" border=\"0\" alt=\"images\/biosphere\/seawifs_chlorophyll_palette.png\" width=\"540\" height=\"36\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"colorbar\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"images\/biosphere\/vegetation_index_palette.png\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/vegetation_index_palette.png?resize=720%2C36\" border=\"0\" alt=\"images\/biosphere\/vegetation_index_palette.png\" width=\"720\" height=\"36\" \/> <a id=\"0\" title=\"1999\" onclick=\"selectImage(0);\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"colorbar\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/biosphere.php?all=y\">show all<\/a><span id=\"view_large\">\u2022<a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2008_lrg.jpg\">view large<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/scripts\/timeseries.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nvar images=[new TSImage(\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_1999.jpg\",\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_1999_lrg.jpg\",\"1999\",\"1999\"),new TSImage(\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2000.jpg\",\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2000_lrg.jpg\",\"2000\",\"2000\"),new TSImage(\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2001.jpg\",\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2001_lrg.jpg\",\"2001\",\"2001\"),new TSImage(\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2002.jpg\",\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2002_lrg.jpg\",\"2002\",\"2002\"),new TSImage(\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2003.jpg\",\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2003_lrg.jpg\",\"2003\",\"2003\"),new TSImage(\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2004.jpg\",\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2004_lrg.jpg\",\"2004\",\"2004\"),new TSImage(\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2005.jpg\",\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2005_lrg.jpg\",\"2005\",\"2005\"),new TSImage(\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2006.jpg\",\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2006_lrg.jpg\",\"2006\",\"2006\"),new TSImage(\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2007.jpg\",\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2007_lrg.jpg\",\"2007\",\"2007\"),new TSImage(\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2008.jpg\",\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/biosphere\/global_biosphere_2008_lrg.jpg\",\"2008\",\"2008\")];selectImage(0);\n\/\/ --><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Life is an integral part of the Earth system. Living things influence the composition of the atmosphere by \u201cinhaling\u201d and \u201cexhaling\u201d carbon dioxide and oxygen. They play a part in the water cycle by pulling water from the soil and the air, and they help put it back again by exhaling water vapor and aerating the soil so rain can soak into the ground. They regulate ocean chemistry by taking carbon out of the atmosphere. Earth would not be the planet that it is without its biosphere, the sum of its life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/biosphere.php\">Earth Observatory &#8211; Global Biosphere<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=38889&amp;src=eoa-iotd\">Image of the day<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes its hard to see the big picture. Its difficult to step outside ourselves and realise that we are part of something larger than ourselves. Our plant is a living system and we are an organism on its skin &#8211; one that is rather parasitic at the moment though we could be benign. To get &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/watch-the-planet-breathe\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watch the planet breathe.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-d7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}