Just in case world leaders need to brush up on their knowledge of high and low emissions scenarios in advance of December's UN climate conference in Copenhagen, Google introduced a series of new Google Earth layers and tours yesterday focused on temperature change around the globe.
The search giant combined data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with Google Earth technology to demonstrate a number of different climate change scenarios in the coming years based on ranges of possible temperature and precipitation changes. In addition to showing the worldwide impact of climate change scenarios, the Google Earth layers will eventually allow users to zoom in on specific neighborhoods. Hint: New York City, watch out.
The first climate change tour, dubbed "Confronting Climate Change" is an introduction to global warming narrated by Al Gore. No word on the topics or narrators of future tours, but Gore's dry climate change intro is available below. Want to take a shot at explaining global warming better than Al Gore? The freshly-launched YouTube COP15 channel allows users to submit homemade videos addressing climate change. Top rated contributions will be aired during the COP15 CNN/YouTube debate on December 15.
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September 23, 2009 at 12:24pm by Roger Andout
As I seem unable to include my comment about climate change I had to put it here http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/roger-andout/dodger/climate-change-where-earth
September 23, 2009 at 12:31pm by Roger Andout
Ah here it is - The full extent of climate change is enormous and I had to smile when I read a comment explained that this was Googles "introductory" tour of climate change - because even the great Google is not sure that it can have any influence over global changes in the climate.