Google Released Simulation Ala Al Gore's Climate

09/28/09

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta - Al Gore has become an icon of global climate change issues. Film work titled An Inconvenient Truth won an Oscar for the documentary category. Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 was also achieved thanks to a public awareness campaign against the threat of climate change.

Last week, Al Gore became a star at the launch of climate change simulations from Google Earth. Former Vice President of the United States is doing voice-overs in Google Earth is a short video entitled Confronting Climate Change in circulation this week. This video can be viewed on YouTube.

Launch of new tools in Google Earth itself is intended to meet the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Danish, December. In its official blog, Google explained has collaborated with the Danish government, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other parties.

Through this device, Google writes in his blog, "You can mengeskplorasi potential impacts of climate change for our planet and the efforts to overcome it." Indeed, in the face there are three links for visitors to Google Earth. First, the video Confronting Climate Change. Secondly, the height of the IPCC scenarios of gas emission levels of greenhouse gases. Third, the lower scenarios. Copenhagen conference so important to create a new agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases in order to replace the Kyoto Protocol which ends soon.

Still in a series, Google also took the CNN showing video series on YouTube called Raise Your Voice. The video is a call from a number of world leaders and public figures about the significance of the Conference of Party-15 in Copenhagen, this December.

To view the Climate Change in Google Earth, visitors must install Google Earth Plugin. There are animated sea level rise would submerge coastal areas of Earth based on IPCC predictions. Tempo had seen the Google presentation about the animation at the 2009 World Ocean Conference in Manado, May.

Then there was a video of Google Earth Climate Change Tour Intro voice filled with Al Gore, Google's corporate adviser. In the video duration is 5 minutes, Al Gore explained that created emissions scenarios IPCC. Also depletion of the polar ice, drought in Mali and adaptation to sea level rise in Bangladesh.

Al Gore who founded The Climate Project was also describe a set of solutions to reduce the volume of gas-greenhouse gases and effort it. From the images in Google Earth, Gore said, we can imagine a new world with the use of renewable energy. "And look at what individuals and communities around the world can do to reduce carbon and adapt to climate change."

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