“Its an impressive project that likely only a technology company like Google could pull off.”

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Theproject is a collaborative partnershipbetween Google and theCREATE LabatCarnegie Mellon University.

“Their framing around it is great, as far as they’re not just putting it out there.

A satellite with the Earth in the background.

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The kind of climate-change evidence the public usually gets is through news articles or statistics.

Still, Baker said photographic evidence like Google Earths could be more successful in really showing whats happening.

A desert floor, dry and cracked open. (Clark Dry Lake, Anza Borrego Desert State Park California, USA)

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