Anyone wanting to know how global warming will affect their community in the future now has a new interactive tool, The Climate Wizard, at her fingertips.

Developed by The Nature Conservancy, the University of Washington and the University of Southern Mississippi, the Climate Wizard provides visitors with quick and easy access to information that usually would take hours if not days for them to research for themselves.

Using the Climate Wizard’s interactive map, visitors can access climate change data from the past and explore future predictions. Zoom tools let you refine your searches to examine different carbon dioxide emission scenarios (low, medium, and high) by location, month, season, and year.

I tried to check out my hometown, but for some reason New Zealand seems to have been left off the list of countries. (The image above is of Fox Glacier.) Hoping that it”˜s absence was just an oversight and not an omen, I clicked on the neighbouring Australia instead. Flicking back and forth between the past and the future, it sure looks like Australia will be getting drier and hotter.

Head to the Climate Wizard to find out what’s happening in your neighbourhood.

– via The Daily Green

Image: thinboyfatter

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