Global Warming Globe

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The Globe 360 Earth is drowning beneath an ocean that now sprawls over it by an astonishing 360 meters, swallowing what was once high and dry just yesterday. Based on the authoritative ETOPO2 database, this life-like sculpture has taken shape in perfect proportions of the real globe we call home. Not a single flake from those majestic ice caps at both ends of the world were moved, so the vast volume of glaciers towers above towering mountains with clarity, an undeniably authentic representation brought into focus using precise digital models. All this was crafted out of 6 million units of valuable data carefully stitched together in order to fill 120,000 delicate geometric triangles, with all these elements blending perfectly as if drawn on the spot from nature herself.\nThe depth was determined using 0.64 as a constant that when multiplied gives us just what we needed, namely accurate values along every globe's vertical axis.\nA little background for our globe ETOPO2 may be in order: global topography details can all be traced back to one and only international collaboration, carefully devised, developed by professionals of its kind around the globe with impartial peer review guaranteed worldwide - just what's expected at latitude-longitude intervals measuring exactly 30 seconds from sea to shining sea - This data model represents real Earth in true precision as mapped across land.\nPrimary partners driving ETOPO2 to perfection and making a valuable gift to the world are quite renowned, all globally-based experts including some highly recognized American entities among them being (find more at our main page), such names as: - USGS, Fairfax VA; National Imagery And Mapping Agency was the entity that first conceived the database; they came from the Department Of Defense back then -Australian surveyors made important contributions as well as their Canadian counterparts did -Besides America also Britain and even German data centers were deeply involved in creating accurate representations -Sandwell took valuable pieces too. They combined those individual contributions with meticulous attention, merging every item of all these major resources with a bit more, using cutting edge reprocessing algorithms where data already provided were augmented in order to make better results possible whenever initial pieces came in without complete information from outside so no distortion occurred. These highly-valued assets form an excellent representation we proudly share today, showcasing some true scientific excellence and collaboration here that truly demonstrates global power of collective wisdom guiding progress through rigorous systematic development at highest standards maintained world wide with passion to give - so our future keeps brightening up.