Those Google Earth time lapse videos are really cool. Thanks for sharing.
I know the CNN says that the video is about climate change.... But, it's really not. That's just to get clicks. Most of it is just showing how cool that kind of time lapse video is. Hopefully, someone can compile a better video that actually focuses on climate change and caption it so that we know what we're looking at.
The most dramatic portions of that particular video were the areas that showed rapid human growth / development. You can see the urban sprawl happening, or (in the case of Dubai) the development pushing out into the sea.