Living Data
The Big Picture
Scientific data and art works combine to make sense of climate change. Dr Mary E. White presents summaries of the sequential stages in the co-evolution of Life and the environment through geological time that have resulted in the creation of the BIOSPHERE (of which we are a part). Artists expand the scientific knowledge by relating it to lived experience. The Big Picture is also explained by Associate Professor Peter Ralph,in SkepticalScience.comand by Dr Haydn Washington in Human Dependence on Nature.
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Mary E. White, The Living Earth, Digitally enhanced satellite photograph (White, 2003, p.xvi, Illus.)
A greenish tint has been added to the image of our 'blue planet' because it is photosynthesis, performed by green organisms, that provides the nutrients for the webs-of-life that make Earth a living world.
Dean Graetz Copyright CSIRO
White (2003)
