Climate change on Google Earth

Agencies across UK Government have joined together to highlight the issues of climate change via Google Earth. We are aiming to reach wider audiences and to evaluate the actions we will all need to take to mitigate and adapt to our changing climate.

Tackling climate change will be one of the most important things this generation does, and everyone needs to get involved. Every day, more and more people are taking individual steps to help reduce carbon emissions and tackle other environmental problems.

What you will see

Once you click through to Google Earth, download the application and then download our layer, you will see a movie of global temperature changes for the next 100 years, produced by the Met Office Hadley Centre's climate model under a medium greenhouse gas emissions scenario. This shows where and how quickly we can expect the world to warm.

• The temperature change animation shows global temperature changes from 2000 to 2100 from the Met Office Hadley Centre's Global Environmental Model Version 1 (HadGEM1)
• The world gets hotter (orange/red colours) as time goes by
• Some regions warm more than others
• Illustrative information on the impacts of climate change for different regions is provided as pushpin "pop-ups" as the animation runs
• Click the pushpins to find out more about the possible impacts of climate change around the world
• In pop-ups with the Met Office logo, click our logo to find out about the impacts and come back to the Met Office website.