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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse

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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (10134)3/25/2010 11:25:04 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 24225
 
"continue on in this madness"

March Madness?

New Ways to Gauge the Finite Atmosphere
By ANDREW C. REVKIN


I recently became aware of fascinating efforts by Adam Nieman to help society appreciate environmental challenges in fresh ways by visualizing volumes that are otherwise abstractions. In 2003 he created the image above, illustrating the volume of the world’s oceans and atmosphere (if the air were all at sea-level density) by rendering them as spheres sitting next to the Earth instead of spread out over its surface.
dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com
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