New Google Earth Feature: Understanding Climate Change

A new feature of Google Earth enables the user to compare Earth’s surface in 1984 to what it looks like today.

If you’re up for it, check out melting glaciers, disappearing forests, and land mass loss due to sea-level rise.

As recently as 60 years ago, it was largely assumed that humankind was incapable, except perhaps via nuclear holocaust, of doing any serious damage to our home planet.  Today it’s right in our face.