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Saturday, May 24, 2008 --- 88 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ecoworldly/com/~3/297048242/
 British prime minister, Gordon Brown’s credentials as a climate change advocate seemed to get a meditated jerk last week as he went all gaga about a new online climate change tracking tool powered by Google Earth, in a collaboration between Google Earth and the UK government.
Call it green spin or not but apart from giving all the applauds to the geeks at Google Earth, he said this about the new tool designed to let users view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, and 3D buildings, or take a journey across the globe:
“I think this will be a huge tool for making everybody aware of the huge climate changes of our time.” Well expressed for now, at least. I can imagine the hushed silence before the clapping in that room that day.
“Climate Change In Our World”, or so the tool is called, is where you get to see and hear the stories of people, living in some of the world’s poorest countries, who are already being affected by changing weather patterns.
In Nepal, you can watch glaciers melt, first hand or see how people in that mountaneous country are surviving mud and landslides. In Myanmar, where Google has been banned , you can still view the devastation by Cyclone Nargis.
In Bangladesh, you will see how people are living on river islands and even the devastation by Cyclone Sidr. In Mozambique, you will see how droughts, floods and higher temperatures bring more disease to city life, or how people are trapped by drough ... |
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