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Really confusing that the graph starts at 2000 and goes backwards in time along the X axis. Is that a Danish thing?
by rm_-rf_slash 10y ago
Really confusing that the graph starts at 2000 and goes backwards in time along the X axis. Is that a Danish thing?
- adamtulinius 10y agoThe plot is weird: The title of the plot ("Isens alder (år )") literally means "age of the ice (years)", so the x-axis should probably have gone from 0 (being year 2016) to 116 (being year 1900), which would sorta have made sense.
- Ericson2314 10y agoices older (y)ear. Oh, how Germanic languages always make sense in hindsight.
- laveur 10y agoI'm pretty sure the X Axis is the year.. meaning to the right is historical data and to the left is the most recent. Its a little weird but it kind of makes sense.
- johnm1019 10y agoAgreed. I think what happened here is that the graph is really made by depth along an ice core (which starts at 0). In order to make the graph more interesting they converted depth to "years ago".
- ThomPete 10y agonot a Danish thing, perhaps it's because it's just a plotter so it starts printing the first year and then goes back?