resonate! how 90 seconds of cello music is helping people connect with climate science

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HTTP://WWW.NRMSC.USGS.GOV/REPEATPHOTO/OVERVIEW.HTM

USGS REPEAT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT

In September 2012, Arctic sea ice reached the smallest extent ever recorded in more than three decades of satellite measurements.

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Source: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

How have average annual temperatures changed across the planet?

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This is simply outstanding!  I'm really excited about this.“ ”

Jon Foley, Institute on the EnvironmentMarch 12, 2013

NOT ALLOUR REVIEWS

WERE POSITIVE.

I don’t quite know what to feel about [this video]; pleased that a passion for artistic creation lurks in the soul of a dendrochronologist, or astonished that a research intern would spend time on something so frivolous.

“ ”Ivan Hewi!, Music critic

August 30, 2013

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However, sometimes converting a simple graph into some different form of information can deliver the message far be#er, and more effectively, than dots on a page.

“ ”Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy

July 18, 2013