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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. Raw data, or "adjusted"? by hsthompson69 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sounds great, but is the climate data going to be massaged first to make the early 20th century colder, and the late 20th century warmer?

    1. Re:Raw data, or "adjusted"? by Spy+Handler · · Score: -1, Troll

      then why did the hockey stick people keep massaging the data?

    2. Re:Raw data, or "adjusted"? by Mashiki · · Score: -1, Troll

      Rule one in science: Anyone that tells you that the science is settled is lying.
      Rule two in science: Anyone that tells you that there's a consensus, and it's accurate is out for money.

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      Om, nomnomnom...
  2. Re:2010 in top three warmest years by Burnhard · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's good to know as I sit freezing in my apartment, the entire country covered in as much snow as we had in 1965.

  3. Re:2010 in top three warmest years by Burnhard · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, I do think it's a relevant argument. The reason is because the huge £200,000,000 supercomputer the Met Office here in the UK uses to predict catastrophe in 2100, is also used to predict that we'll have BBQ summers and a warm, dry winter here in 2010. It is obvious even to the stupidest cretin that the models used make assumptions that are clearly wrong. Not even wrong, actually.