.....Of course this information is very important to the US Military itself, but it also helps us with global climate change, weather forecasting, environmental issues, sea life migrations, fishing, super tanker safety, etc. Using GeoSats we have done this for our own Planet.........

Delegates from the nations that emit the most pollutants worked Thursday to advance discussions on how the world can combat global climate change.

"By dessert, we have a grand scheme to use Google maps to create a global visualization of The Climate Project’s reach -- where we have presented and where we need to go next -- overlaid atop regional concerns and solutions..."

Under the term permafrost, scientists refer to frozen soil that is mostly found in cold countries like Canada and Russia (cf. map from the UNEP on the left)Climate change might unfreeze these soils, which might be a serious danger as they contain very large quantities of methane, a very potent greenhouse gas.

The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the international Framework Convention on Climate Change with the objective of reducing Greenhouse gases that cause climate change. 2 countries didn't ratify it. Kazakhstan is one. Can you guess the other country?

Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. Though various definitions of its exact composition exist, no one definition is universally accepted. Despite this uncertainty in defining borders, it does have some important overall characteristics. For one, Central Asia has historically been closely tied to its nomadic peoples and the Silk Road. As a result, it has acted as a crossroads for the movement of people, goods, and ideas between Europe, Western Asia, South Asia, and East Asia. It is also sometimes known as Middle Asia or Inner Asia, and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent.The nations of Central Asia are a conglomeration of nations located in the "centralized" locale of the Asian hemisphere, landlocked on one side with the western-most Asian Turkic regions, demarcation in the Eastern/South-Eastern Indian mountainous regions, and finally the northern Russia. Majority of these nations have spheres of influence included from all of these borders, as they are mostly comprised of countries influenced by Soviet Russia.To a certain extent, it is largely coextensive with Turkestan. Roughly speaking, Central Asia consists of states like Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. In geopolitical contexts, the states of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China (Tibet and Xinjiang), the northwestern part of India, northern part of Pakistan, eastern part of Iran, and parts of Mongolia are often meant.