New NASA Website Focuses on Global Climate Change

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New NASA Website Focuses on Global Climate Change

A new website from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is devoted to
educating the public about Earth's changing climate. The Global Climate Change website
provides easy-to-understand information about the causes and effects of climate change
and how NASA studies it.

The new Global Climate Change website may be found at: http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov .

Highlights of the new website include:

* A continuously updated snapshot of our planet's health, built from NASA data on
such climate indicators as the condition of Earth's ice sheets, global average
temperatures, sea level change and concentrations of key greenhouse gases.

* Interactive visualizations of current climate data, including a Sea Level Viewer
that provides views from space of ocean surface topography data and related
phenomena such as El Nin?o; and a Global Climate Change Time Machine that
takes users back in time to see how Earth's climate has changed in the past, and
how it is projected to change in the future.

* A downloadable desktop widget that allows users to track key indicators of
climate change as measured by NASA satellites.

* Easy-to-understand background articles on the evidence, causes and effects, and
uncertainties of global climate change, as well as links to selected resources that
provide information about possible solutions.

* NASA's Eyes on the Earth: An overview of ongoing NASA JPL missions to study
our planet's oceans, atmosphere, land, ice and biosphere.

* The latest news and features from NASA JPL on climate change research.

For more information on NASA's Earth Science Program, visit: http://www.nasa.gov.

JPL studies all aspects of the Earth system -- our oceans, land, atmosphere, biosphere,
and cryosphere -- to identify how Earth's climate is changing, understand the causes of
these changes, and support development of models used to predict future global change.
Currently, JPL has six dedicated Earth science spacecraft in orbit, with another five
instruments flying aboard NASA's Terra, Aqua and Aura spacecraft. JPL's newest Earth
mission, the Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2, launched June 20. Several
more missions are planned for launch in the next few years, including the Orbiting
Carbon Observatory, scheduled for launch in January 2009. Decision makers around the
world use JPL Earth science data to support policy-making and resource management
decisions.

JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

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