Google Earth Is An Excellent Tool To Learn About Global Warming
Posted on June 10, 2007
I love Google Earth for it’s many great uses in education. This time Wired magazine is reporting about how it’s enabling people to find out exactly how global warming is effecting our planet.
You can see it up close and personal using the 3D satellite mapping technology of Google Earth. Wired quotes the maker of these tools:
” Well, you can do all that with the set of tools I’ve bundled together into this: the weather and storm tracking tools collection . Simply drag this network link into your Places folder to keep it handy. It won’t take up space until you turn it on. It first loads several folders of weather tools you can explore. ”
“Right now it includes: a global hurricane tracking tool, global cloud maps, severe weather warning data and radar data from NOAA for the US, weather observations for the US from WeatherBonk, a real-time day/night viewing tool, and the global annual lightning flash rate map from NASA.”
I’m amazed. I’ll use this to help answer some of the questions my 8 year old son is asking about climate change and global warming.
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