Climate Cafe: Climate Change Conversations » google earth http://www.climatecafe.org/blog Climate Change: A blog to inspire action on Climate Change Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:04:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Al Gore and Google Earth Collaboration Video http://www.climatecafe.org/blog/2009/10/al-gore-and-google-earth-collaboration-video/ http://www.climatecafe.org/blog/2009/10/al-gore-and-google-earth-collaboration-video/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:13:54 +0000 Todd Lucier http://www.climatecafe.org/blog/?p=656 Google teams up with Al Gore to provide a Google Earth view of Climate Change.
Climate Change in Google Earth

Explore the impact of climate change on our planet and learn about possible solutions for adaptation and mitigation of climate change as we move toward the UN Climate Conference this December.

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Learn more about Climate Change in Antarctica.

Learn more about Climate Change in our World. You need to have Google Earth installed on your computer to view these animations. Once you have opened these KML files, click on the icons to find out more about how people around the world are already being affected by changing weather patterns and see the predicted effects of climate change across the globe between now and 2100.

]]> http://www.climatecafe.org/blog/2008/05/climate-change-on-google-earth/feed/ 0 Google Earth Conspiracy on Global Warming http://www.climatecafe.org/blog/2008/05/google-earth-conspiracy-on-global-warming/ http://www.climatecafe.org/blog/2008/05/google-earth-conspiracy-on-global-warming/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 01:36:31 +0000 Todd Lucier http://www.climatecafe.org/blog/?p=10 Why does Google earth no longer show ice at arctic ocean. The earth as we know it has always had a sheet of ice that expands and contracts over the year, but it has always been there. This pictures below are the satellite view of sea ice extent at their smallest range at the end of summer (September) in the Arctic from 1980 and 2007.

Sea Ice in the Arctic 1980Sea Ice extent 2007

No more according to Google Earth. Are Google, NASA, and other organizations conspiring to make Americans think that the Arctic Ocean is in fact ice free already? These are screen shots from Google Earth taken today on my computer.

Google Earth

Ice Free Arctic?

I guess with this Google Earth conspiracy teaching us that there is no ice on the Arctic Ocean, the political gamesmanship over rights to the oil on the bottom of this ocean can begin. The tragic consequences of human inaction on the climate crisis that will eventually bring about an end to this ice covered ocean, are already bringing about serious consequences…. just ask the people of Myanmar about weather-related consequences of Global Warming (May 3, 2008 Cyclone killed over 20 000).

Thank you Google, for making it easier to sleep at night.

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