Los Angeles Times - Google offers a glimpse of how climate change might affect California

Google seems to be working together with California to give a picture of global warming that anyone can see. So far it sounds cool, but unfortunately I've been unable to see any of the content due to internet problems. Can't wait 'til I get those sorted out. Anyway, you can view a bit more information (and a video tour guided by none other than the governator himself!) at California's CalADAPT page. The video runs through a tour of much of the climate change data added to google Earth for the California area, including projected ice pack size, wildfire risks and rising sea levels. Definitely worth the watching.

Researchers and policymakers have long rued that it’s hard to illustrate the perils of global warming when its most serious impacts won’t be visible for decades.

But thanks to the state Natural Resources Agency and Google, a graphic view of climate change’s potential effect on California -- based on scientific modeling -- is now just a mouse-click away.
Do you want to know if global warming will wipe out the Sierra snowpack before your great-great-grandchildren hit college?

Whether rising sea levels will obliterate landmarks in Baghdad by the Increasingly Deep Bay?
Whether your neighborhood will be safe from wildfires whipped by rising temperatures 76 years from now?

If Google Earth already lives in your computer, see for yourself in living color. Dodger fans take note: Much of the field at AT&T Park, where San Francisco Giants play, could someday be under five feet of water.

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December 4^th - 11:19 PM:
Another article was released today by SFist. Nothing new, but I saw it and thought I may as well post it.

December 5^th - 5:17 PM:
A third article, this one from the Examiner in Minneapolis.