Feeling the heat, missing snow, want to go skiing? Try out this interactive Antarctica simulation build with flash 3d.
via: Ehrensenf
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Sze Ee Lee, a 14-year-old Malaysian girl, has won the 36th Universal Postal Union International Letter-Writing Competition. It is the first time that Malaysia wins the international competition for young people, which has been held since 1972.
Dear People of the World,
Don’t be surprised when you see this letter. Let me introduce myself. My name is Cody, a tiger cub that lives in the rainforest of Malaysia. I may be small but I have seen horrific things done to the creatures of the Earth.
I couldn’t sleep for days when I heard about what had happen to my cousin Nikki. Luckily, he was rescued from the cooking pot just in time. Kind people have since then taken good care of him. So I have many words to say to the people of this planet.
I want to congratulate you all. Many of you have good education and live in your so-called world of modernization. Does this mean that humans are civilized?
Yet, why do humans still need to invade our jungle besides hunting us like in those primitive days. Dear people of the World, don’t burn our homes and occupy the area, our natural habitat. We have no other place to go.
For the 37th competition, the UPU is inviting youngsters to write a letter explaining why the world needs more tolerance - a particularly relevant theme in an age of globalization, migration and other trends bringing ever more people from different cultures into contact with each other.
Every month the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has a look at the month before and publishes a report from a historical perspective.
July 2007 brought record and near-record warmth to the western United States, while much of the eastern and southern U.S. experienced cooler-than-average temperatures, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
Below-average rainfall, combined with scorching temperatures, helped put 46 percent of the contiguous U.S. in some stage of drought by the end of July.
The global average temperature was the seventh warmest on record for July, and the presence of cooler-than-average waters in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific reflected the possible development of a La Niña episode.
The Climate Monitoring website acts as a good one-stop website for all kind of data (snow, tornadoes, climate extremes for Las Vegas, global surface temperature anomalies and more.
| Signs and the Science |
Inspired by Lydia Dotto’s work: ‘Storm Warnings: ‘Gambling with Climate of Our Planet’.
With contributions of Paul Malewski, Thom Hartman, Klaus Lackner, Zhou Dadi, Larence Kalkstein, Dr. John Breen. Responsible for the Content is Carolina ETV. Produced by David Kennard.
Via: Overheating
Play with trees, ships, windmills, houses and bodies in a strong storm. More digital toys you’ll find on Masayuki Kido’s web page.
Via lessrain.com
Starting in 1990 the round based game let you play the president of the European Nations. You have to reduce emission of carbon dioxid and stay in office, so do not offend voters with unpopular decisions or policies.
Would the planet survive if you were in power? Innovate, trade and persuade other nations to help you save the environment.
In preparation are reviews of two popular climate board games produced by MunichRe and Spieltrieb GbR: Winds of Change and ‘Keep Cool’
| Battersea |
Past, present and future of our industrial civilization illustrated with 3D animations of the Battersea power station in London.
The Arctic Post reports of Global Warming in Lapland, due to higher temperatures the runway is still not frozen and Santa Claus may cancel an expected to be dangerous lift-off…
green-santa-com is a carbon-free non-profit website
As an impressive part the forest gallery presents photos of the biggest 18 forests on Earth from leading photograpers.
Moreover the documentation explains the importance of forests and trees for humans and biodiversity.
Take some time, enjoy the ambient background music and explore worlds most important plants and their habitat.
via: Ehrensenf.de
Children of all ages from more than 80 schools around the world participated in a Google project. Using Google Docs & Spreadsheets as collaborative software they brainstormed about Climate Change and came up with a big list of ideas.
These are the top 50:
- Include global warming/climate change in school curricula (as part of National Science Standards), so when the students are in charge they can make educated decisions.
- Increase availability of low-interest Energy Efficient Mortgages to support homeowners who increase the energy efficiency of their homes.
- Put light sensors in all office and school buildings so all lights go off when the rooms are empty.
- Require that all products contributing to global warming be marked with a specific color (e.g., chemical pesticides could be marked with a red sticker for being extremely dangerous to the environment).
- Use less paper; use the back of the paper to print on or write on; use recyled paper. (more…)
