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Those images would have more impact if they compared them to the average temperature for August over many years, rather then the average temperature over an ent
by ars 3y ago
Those images would have more impact if they compared them to the average temperature for August over many years, rather then the average temperature over an entire year.
- sn41 3y agoAbsolutely point on. NASA should not leave obvious vulnerabilities to attacks by climate change deniers. People should give more thought to how and what data is presented (with a bow to Edward Tufte and Hans Rosling). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling
- BoiledCabbage 3y agoAgreed - This link (which I've seen around) seems to do a good job of showing the year over year trend: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/ https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
- cameldrv 3y agoThey also need to make everything public facing use the Fahrenheit scale. To Americans, 2 degrees doesn’t sound like too much, but 4 (3.6) degrees sounds like a lot more. Essentially zero people in the U.S. even know that 2 degrees C is almost 4 degrees F.