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I'm Melting! NASA Climate Change App Has Chilling Before/After Photos
I'm Melting! NASA Climate Change App Has Chilling Before/After Photos
ICTMN Staff http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/01/22/nasa-climate-change-app-displays-sobering-and-after-photos-153208
1/22/14
Climate change? Yup, there’s an app for that.
Sadly, it won’t solve the warming of the earth’s climate, or the almost-irreversible changes being wrought by greenhouse gases and acidifying oceans. But anyone with an iPad can download an application created by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory that shows the jarring before-and-after on Earth’s features, landscapes and glaciers.
The iPad application, Images of Change, was released on December 3 and demonstrates through photos taken at the same time of year, though decades apart, what has occurred. It pairs a photo of the same place from early in the 20th century with a present-day view. All locations have changed dramatically, NASA pointed out in its statement, be it through disasters such as fire or tsunami, dam building or urban growth, and, of course, climate change. Drought, melting glaciers, floods—it's all there. ...........
Sadly, it won’t solve the warming of the earth’s climate, or the almost-irreversible changes being wrought by greenhouse gases and acidifying oceans. But anyone with an iPad can download an application created by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory that shows the jarring before-and-after on Earth’s features, landscapes and glaciers.
The iPad application, Images of Change, was released on December 3 and demonstrates through photos taken at the same time of year, though decades apart, what has occurred. It pairs a photo of the same place from early in the 20th century with a present-day view. All locations have changed dramatically, NASA pointed out in its statement, be it through disasters such as fire or tsunami, dam building or urban growth, and, of course, climate change. Drought, melting glaciers, floods—it's all there. ...........
