The color scale for the chart makes it look worse than it is (red looks "hotter" than the equator, for example) when it's really just measuring variance from ex

The color scale for the chart makes it look worse than it is (red looks "hotter" than the equator, for example) when it's really just measuring variance from expected temps. Nevertheless, the more data we get, the more terrifying global warming looks. It is really a scary problem to confront, and discoveries like this show us how poorly we understand our life support system as we perturb it.