Google Doodle Marks Earth Day 2022 with Stark Images of Climate Crisis
hubie writes:
Google marked Earth Day 2022 with a Doodle consisting of animated GIFs showing time-lapse images of four scenes: glacial retreat at the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania between December 1986 and 2020 and in Sermersooq, Greenland between December 2000 and 2020, a coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef between March 2016 and October 2017, and deforestation of the Harz forests in Elend, Germany, between December 1995 and 2020.
Climate counsellor Lesley Hughes, a professor of biology at Macquarie University in Sydney, said the images of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef are "a very high-impact visual image" that would resonate.
[...] "Our physical and biological world is transforming before our eyes and that's what these images are emphasising and so there's absolutely no time to waste."
Hughes said the confronting images published in 2022 may be a response to the IPCC26 report and were important for raising awareness.
"I think when you're sitting in a middle-class environment and it's a nice day and the sun's come up or has gone down, it's easy to become complacent about the larger forces at work in our climate system and the impacts those forces have," Hughes said.
"So reminding people that just because it's a nice day, climate change hasn't gone away is really important."
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