80 percent of world climate data are not computerized and readily available
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 09:30
in Earth & Climate
In order to gain a better knowledge of climate variations, such as those caused by global warming, and be able to tackle them, we need to understand what happened in the recent past. A new study shows that the scientific community today is only able to access and analyze 20 percent of the recorded climate information held. The remaining data are not accessible in digital format.