Google Earth & British Crown Team-Up in Fight Against Global Warming
On Monday, May 19, 2008 the offices of Google Earth Outreach and the British Government announced the release of new layers in the hugely popular Google Earth application that will help illustrate the great wealth of data being accumulated on the real changes taking place in our world, and what such trends mean for the next century ahead.
The announcement is two fold: there is both a layer available highlighting what scientists in the Antarctic have been studying (courtesy of the British Antarctic Survey), and also a prediction for world-wide temperature change over the next century (courtesy of the Met Office Hadley Center).
While this information has been available to scientists for quite some time, this is the first time it has been presented in such a slick and efficient manner for all the armchair quarterback commenters out there who are interested in a fair and non-politicized view of the situation.
So have a look. It's certainly cheaper than chartering a flight direct to Antarctica yourself.