WIRED NextFest 2008 Exhibits
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Climate Time Machine
NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
H.G. Wells’ classic 1895 novella The Time Machine takes readers 3 million years into the future to witness the dying planet Earth. NASA’s Climate Change mission is pure science fact, providing the scientific data needed to understand climate change and to evaluate our efforts to control it. The Climate Time Machine is an interactive visualization of data from NASA and the Department of Energy. It shows changes in air temperature, CO2, and sea level, going back, in some cases, to Wells’ time. And it shows the effect that rising sea levels from melting polar ice will have on coastal areas in the future. In Wells’ story, the Time Traveller made a nick-of-time getaway from the dying planet in his time machine. The NASA Climate Time Machine could help us make our own nick-of-time getaway.