Thursday, May 15, 2008

Climate Change In Our World

Met Office

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk

Explore and learn about the impacts of climate change and find out how you can make a difference with Climate Change in our World. The Met Office Hadley Centre, British Antarctic Survey and UK Government have harnessed Google Earth technology to present you with an interactive animation showing how climate change and global temperature rises could affect our world over the next 100 years.

Once you have opened this KML, 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.

On opening up the KML you can find out more about how we produced these files, and what is happening on a global and domestic scale to prevent and combat the effects of climate change.

Viewing tip: To view this animation at a slower speed, click the button on the left of the timeline bar and set the speed slider to its lowest setting.


http://earth.google.com/gallery/images/small/mohc_defra_layer_sm.jpg

http://earth.google.com/gallery/images/large/mohc_defra_layer_lg.jpg

Open in Google Earth