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- Climate Change Interactive Map
- The UK government's Met Office has produced an interactive map which shows the impact on land mass of a global termperature rise of 4 degrees celsius.
Added: 30 October 2009
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- Random Hacks of Kindness
- "Random Hacks of Kindness is a community of innovation focused on developing practical open source solutions to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation challenges. Random Hacks of Kindness was founded in 2009 in partnership between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and the World Bank. Since then thousands of volunteers have worked on applications that are already making an impact. I'm OK, an SMS service that lets people inform their families of their status, was used on the ground during the devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile in 2010. The World Bank is piloting CHASM, software for visualizing landslide risk, in the Caribbean. Other apps have received support and interest from governments, NGOs and international organizations around the world..."
Added: 24 May 2011;
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- NASA Uses Space Lasers to Map the World’s Forests
- by Jolie O'Dell. Mashable, July 21, 2010. "... NASA scientists have used data collected by the ICESat, Terra and Aqua satellites to create a topographical map that shows the height of forests around the world, from the rain forests of the Amazon to the redwood and sequoia forests of Northern California..."
Added: 23 July 2010;
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- Aussie Googler hits the world stage for climate change
- by Asher Moses. The Age, December 2, 2009. "An online platform developed by an Australian Googler in his "20 per cent time" has been adopted by the United Nations to show world leaders the extent of global support for climate change action at this month's summit in Copenhagen..."
Added: 2 December 2009;
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- Google Earth climate change 3D map unveiled
- by Asher Moses. Sydney Morning Herald, September 28, 2009. "Google is using its Google Earth mapping tool to simulate on a 3D map of the world the predicted effects of climate change until the year 2100. Using data provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the search giant created new layers for Google Earth showing the range of expected temperature and precipitation changes under different global emissions scenarios that could occur throughout the century..."
Added: 29 September 2009;
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