NASA's scary visualisation shows how greenhouse gases are altering oceans. Watch

"With 70% of the planet covered by water, the seas are important drivers of Earth’s global climate:" NASA wrote as a part of its post on greenhouse gases.“Our ocean is changing,” the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) wrote while posting a visualisation depicting how greenhouse gases impact

Earth's water bodies. The space agency wrote that the gases produced by human activities are altering the ocean.Elaborating on the visualisation, NASA shared that the different colours depict

the average temperature for the sea surface currents. “With warmer colours (red, orange, and yellow) representing warmer temperatures and cooler colours (green and blue) representing cooler temperatures,” the agency added.“With 70% of the planet covered by water,

the seas are important drivers of Earth’s global climate. Yet, increasing greenhouse gases from human activities are altering the ocean before our eyes. NASA and its partners are on a mission to find out more,” NASA further posted.Since being shared, the video has received more than 8.2 lakh views. In addition, the video has accumulated nearly 8,000 likes. People posted varied comments while reacting to the share.

What did Instagram users post about this concerning video?

An Instagram user posted, “Amazing data and visualisation. Very cool!” Adding to the conversation, an individual added, “Climate change is a huge problem”.

A person posted, “Can you please explain what this data is showing? Is it taken over days or months? What time of year? Is it ocean currents or ocean temperatures? What have we concluded from this data?” NASA responded,

“The visualisation shows sea surface current flows. The flows are coloured by corresponding sea surface temperature data. The time range for this particular visualisation is from 2007-2008.”