{"id":575,"date":"2011-11-22T22:24:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T02:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/?p=575"},"modified":"2016-01-27T11:59:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T15:59:26","slug":"nasas-climatological-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2011\/11\/22\/nasas-climatological-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasa&#8217;s Climatological Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, hello there gang!<\/p>\n<p>If you ever happen to be looking for information or topics on large scale climate issues then look no further than <a href=\"http:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/\">Nasa\u2019s climatological website<\/a>. As soon as you visit the site&#8217;s homepage you see a wealth of information on a variety of climate issues. How about arctic sea ice levels? Yep, they have that. Carbon Dioxide information? Of course. Sea levels and global temperatures? You bet. How about land ice, do they do land ice? Most definitely.<\/p>\n<p>There are also tabs on the homepage related to <em>key<\/em> <em>indicators<\/em> like carbon dioxide concentration, <em>evidence<\/em> like sea level rising, <em>causes<\/em> like greenhouse gases, <em>effects<\/em> like weather intensification, and <em>uncertainties<\/em> like the effects of solar output on Earth.\u00a0 The tabs for each of these climatological phenomena are easily accessible in the event that any skeptics visit the site at any point. If you ever need to make an argument for the existence of climate change, this website is a fantastic place to start your research for such an arguement.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most persuasive and fascinating aspect of Nasa\u2019s climate website is the wide selection they have of satellite imagery obtained by one of their three Earth orbiting satellites (called &#8220;Grace,&#8221; &#8220;AIRS,&#8221; and &#8220;Jason-1&#8221;) like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2011\/11\/glacier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-579\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2011\/11\/glacier-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2011\/11\/glacier-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2011\/11\/glacier-1024x550.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2011\/11\/glacier.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of the images on the website, Nasa also has a wide array of photographs taken from people in the field like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2011\/11\/ImageLarge-140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-578\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2011\/11\/ImageLarge-140-300x96.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re doing research in order to debate against a climate change skeptic, for school, or for your own personal interest, Nasa&#8217;s climate website ought to be your first stop!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, hello there gang! If you ever happen to be looking for information or topics on large scale climate issues then look no further than Nasa\u2019s climatological website. As soon as you visit the site&#8217;s homepage you see a wealth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2011\/11\/22\/nasas-climatological-website\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1611,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1043,1046,12585,1044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atmosphere","category-biosphere","category-fall-2011","category-hydrosphere"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}