Google Earth launches climate change tours
A newly launched series of Google Earth tours will map out the projected impacts of climate change worldwide and look at mitigation and adaptation options. Here's a brief intro, narrated in the light Tennessee drawl of Al Gore:
The full length intro is here, with more tours to come. Google is also inviting netizens to talk back about climate change on a new YouTube channel.
While you're playing with climate science layers on Google Earth, you may want to check out our interactive map of polar ice coring sites where researchers have extracted hundreds of millennia of climatic history.
Anna Barnett
