Emeritus Prof Christopher MayGood morning
This is the clearest graphic on global temperature rises I have ever seen - made by Ed Hawkins (U Reading).
Might not telll you anything you don't know but its clarity focusses the mind.
NormanDunbar@ChrisMayLA6 It runs too fast to be clear, but it would be interesting to see how WW 1 and WW 2 affected things.
Still horrific though. Climate change deniers need to "get in the sack"!
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@ChrisMayLA6 Its good but on my computer when it gets to the last data point it immediately goes back to the start, and stays there. This gives no time to take in the exceptionally quick rise at the end. I feel it should show the final frame at resting. It would make it much easier to digest and easier to show to someone.
Cytro@ChrisMayLA6
It looks like an exponential curve ... are we screwed?
It looks like an exponential curve ... are we screwed?
Diana Probst, Cambridge Artist@ChrisMayLA6 the XKCD long vertical scroll is also really good, but takes longer.
ETA: found URL. https://xkcd.com/1732/
Stoneface Vimes@dianaprobst @ChrisMayLA6 good but also very depressing. For humans at least.
@capnthommo @ChrisMayLA6 And the North American pokemon.
K~@ChrisMayLA6 I've seen a version of this idea which, at the end, rotates the graph in 3D so that you see a vase-like shape curving outwards at a rapidly increasing rate. (1850s at the bottom, 2020s at the top.)
Nini@ChrisMayLA6 Feel like I saw this before but made by @ZLabe, he does a lot of visualisations like this.
MidgePhoto@ChrisMayLA6
A big round thing coming at us fast.
Dodging that bullet* would be a good idea, but we have nowhere to go.
* Train, trolley, tram if you prefer. If so, the driver needs urgent attention.
arrakeen_urbanite@ChrisMayLA6 I still think a simple line graph communicates clearer. I think what this animation provides is mostly distorting drama, due to linear Ā°C in radial direction amplifying the passage of time as 2Ļr as temperature go up.
On the plus side:
1. The annual cycling of the seasons is naturally captured. However, reasonably intelligent people could get that from a gridline for each year on a linear graph.
2. The animated nature makes the passage of time explicit. Again, though, how little education do you need to understand āhorizontal axis equals passing timeā?
The effort is laudable. I just despair. At this point, you get it that climate change is a problem, or youāre probably either a science-denying head-in-the-sand type, or so heavily invested in resource extraction industries that you need people to ignore it.