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big scary graphs without context

• mcv 3y ago
  The graphs tell you what they're about. Temperature this year is at the very top of recent years, probably another hottest year ever, and a full degree above the 1978-2000 average. Wildfires in Canada are just insane right now. Way, way more than previous years this time of the year. North Atlantic temperature is way higher than any previous year. Antarctic sea ice is lower than ever. All of these are signs that climate change is getting worse and worse. And stuff is likely to get worse in the coming years. And if we don't do anything to dramatically reduce CO2 emissions, it's going to get even worse after that. We do have the ability to turn this around, but we clearly lack the political will to do so. And the longer we wait, the worse it will get.
• lm28469 3y ago
  If you can read and count the graphs are ok actually
• toss1 3y ago
  Nice, a technical-content-free comment attempting to distract from and diminish the message. Not only that, it is dead wrong (at least to anyone who actually reads any of the graphs). The graphs themselves do an excellent job of providing the relevant context — they show decades of previous context, with the current year highlighted. The context of the past decades is literally the point of how the graphs were designed. The titles on the graphs also further describe the context - "..temperature anomaly", "...ice extent anomaly". The consequences of burning eons worth of stored hydrocarbons in a few decades are upon us. But attitudes like this are literally part of the problem.