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Google Earth Engine To Provide Climate Change Data

Posted by Soulskill on from the melts-in-your-browser,-not-in-your-icecaps dept.

Meshach tips news that Google has unveiled Google Earth Engine, "a new technology platform that puts an unprecedented amount of satellite imagery and data — current and historical — online for the first time. It enables global-scale monitoring and measurement of changes in the earth’s environment." They're also "donating 10 million CPU-hours a year over the next two years on the Google Earth Engine platform, to strengthen the capacity of developing world nations to track the state of their forests, in preparation for REDD. For the least developed nations, Google Earth Engine will provide critical access to terabytes of data, a growing set of analytical tools and our high-performance processing capabilities."

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  1. Response of a Real American(TM) by jdgeorge · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Science" is baloney. It's just the government's way of trying to keep us in line.
    The dodo bird never existed, it was made up by special interests.
    The carrier pigeon was also a massive work of fiction.
    The tropical jungles were never a huge as historians say they were.
    The climate isn't getting warmer. And if it were getting warmer (which it isn't), it would be because of something completely unrelated to the activity of people.