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Learn about the human side of climate change with Kofi Annan
11/30/10
(Cross-posted with the
Official Google Blog
and the
LatLong Blog
)
Climate change is too often misunderstood to be simply an environmental issue, rather than a human issue. For our children and grandchildren, climate change is an issue of public health, economics, global security and social equity. This human side of climate change is explained in a new Google Earth tour narrated by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. Within these stories, you’ll find data and tools to explore this topic in more depth, and meet some of the people who are actively working on managing the risks of climate variability and change. We encourage you to take the tour to learn more about these human issues and the inspiring work of groups like the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (
AGRA
) that are helping farmers cope with climate change. We hope this video will serve as a useful tool as educators help students around the world understand the complexity of this issue.
This is the latest in our series of
climate change tours
that we’re releasing leading up to the global U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (
COP16
) talks in Cancun, Mexico this week.
As part of the
Google Earth for Educators Community
, we’ve also created a special
Climate Change Educators Resources page
that teachers can use in their classrooms. Here, teachers can find the tools they need to create lesson plans about climate change, including all the individual Google Earth KML layers available for download. Teachers and students can overlay multiple data layers that help illustrate climate change, and discuss and analyze them as part of K-12 and higher education curriculum. We’re also looking for lessons plans for any school grade that use this narrated tour or these Google Earth KML layers, so if you’re a teacher or instructor, please
submit your lesson plan
for review now.
Visit
google.com/landing/cop16/climatetours.html
or the
Climate Change Educators Resources page
to learn more about climate change today.
Posted by Dr. Amy Luers, Google.org
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