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Google Shows Us Change

In anticipation of the United Nations’ Climate Change Convention, Google has unveiled its first climate tour on Google Earth. In December, representatives from around the world are attending a conference in Copenhagen, Denmark to discuss ways to reduce global warming emissions. This is the fifteenth Conference of the Parties under the United Nations’ Climate Change Convention or COP15.
The conference runs from December seventh until the eighteenth. The COP is the highest body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that consists of environmental ministers who meet annually to discuss the convention’s developments. It is expected that 189 countries will be represented this year with at least 10,000 people attending. These totals include countries with observer status, industry groups, and non-government organizations. The overall goal of this convention is to come up with a system or regulations when it comes to the stabilization of global warming emissions in the atmosphere.

Google is working with the Danish government and other agencies in order to launch a series of Google layers and tours that will allow the public to see what impact climate change will have on Earth. These tours also give solutions on better ways to manage our pollution. The data has been collected from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, showing various scenarios of temperature and precipitation changes that could occur over the next century if global emissions are ignored.

The first of the series was released September 22, 2009 titled “Confronting Climate Change” and was narrated by Al Gore. Google Earth is not the only source of participation, YouTube is also being used to help promote the initiative “Raise Your Voice.” The YouTube COP15 channel will be available for the public to submit their thoughts and questions about climate change to decision-makers and the world. The videos will be broadcasted during the conference in December and viewers of the channel will be able to rate them. The top-rated contributors will be aired during the COP15 CNN/YouTube debate on December 15th with the top two contibutors winning a trip to Copenhagen.

 

Written by: J. Elizabeth Lawrence
 

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