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If you have seen An Inconvenient Truth or had the opportunity to see The Slide Show in person, you were probably blown away by some of the graphs, charts, and photos. While I cannot track down all or even a small percentage of them, below are links to some of them.
And I invite you to add links and sources in comments.
First, the film site itself offers some
photos and screen savers you can download.
Hole in the Ozone
Want to check on the size of that hole in the ozone over Antarctica? A trip there plus the cost of high-quality ozone-measuring instruments is pretty pricey. The next best thing, heck, the best thing, is the NASA Ozone Watch site.
It has it all. Statistics. Photos. And even animations to let you see how the ozone hole has changed during recent seasons. Here's 2005.
And though not in the film but while we are talking about Antartica, the Belgians are planning a new research station for the Antarctic that will set a global sustainability benchmark. Details here. It shows that at this time, most of the US is experiencing moderate to extreme drought. And here are links to much more information.
Melting Glaciers
Those glacier photos - b.g.w. and g.w. - were pretty amazing. Here are comparisons of Muir Glacier.
This special collection features 14 pairs of Alaskan photographs. Each photographic pair consists of a late-19th or early-20th century photograph and a 21st century photograph taken from the same location. The comparative photographs clearly show substantial changes in glacier position and size and document significant landscape evolution and vegetative succession.
More photos and data are here. And here is an interactive glacier viewing map.
Sea Ice
The film also discusses sea ice. Here is a link to information on sea ice.
Hurricanes
NOAA is the place to go for information on hurricanes. This link will take you to key hurricaine information, including photos and studies. And here you can find data on just how the 2005 hurricane season stacked up. This link takes you to hurricane "visuals" by season.
Here is information and photos of tornadoes.
Fires
The film discussed fires as contributing to global warming and other problems. The European Space Agency site has photos and information, including maps of current fires - updated every six hours. You can register free and have access to more fire maps. The site also offers products, such as the burned area land use change detector.
Drought
Here is information on drought conditions in the US. If you scroll down, you will see two animations on recent drought conditions in the US. Here is one.
NOAA also offers drought information as well as water levels in rivers. As I write this, the Northeast is still experiencing flood conditions, something you can easily see in the animation.
Other links show drought areas in the US, such as this one.
So, feel free to contribute more information and links.
By the way, all this information comes from public sources. Your tax dollars are paying for this research and access to it - information that is critically important. Imagine if we left it up to the tobacco industry, auto industry, and the private sector to gather information that for many of them holds inconvenient truths.