British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the Google Zeitgeist conference launched “Climate Change in Our World”, a new navigation tool that will help its users to flip through the impact of climate change.
The project launched on May 19 is a joint initiative of Google Earth, UK's Met Office Hadley Centre and the British Antarctic Survey.
The software can help its millions of viewers around the world to see how climate change will affect the planet and its people in next century along with viewing the loss of Antarctic ice shelves over the past 50 years.
The new version of Google Earth comes with two animation tools, one of which shows world temperatures throughout the 100 years under medium projection of green house emissions along with its affect on people and countries while the other animation developed by British Antarctic Survey shows the retreat of the Antarctic ice caps since last 50 years. It also highlights the effect of climate change in the Antarctic.
Significantly, the tool also allows its user to educate oneself through various information given and how one can submit themselves to fight the negative impact of climate change.
This tool can impart knowledge to the viewers over the concerns of climate change by providing estimates of both the change in the temperature of the place they live and the effect of the change such as sea levels rise, crops fail, extreme weather increases and more areas face the risk of drought and flood.
Interestingly with a click of mouse the viewers can zoom in on a particular cities or country to evaluate the changes and will provide help to individual, communities, civil societies and government to work on.
The tool shows that India will see a rise of 4 ºC to 6ºC which will have a deleterious effect on agriculture pattern as well as drought like situation in north India including Bihar, Orissa and a part of South India. The result is based on a survey done by UK government with the Ministry of Environment and Rural Development in 2006.
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