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Some beautiful visualizations here. However, one problem with it is that we are still talking about averages. This doesn't demonstrate the increase in weather v
by mempko 2y ago
Some beautiful visualizations here. However, one problem with it is that we are still talking about averages. This doesn't demonstrate the increase in weather variability that global warming will bring. These climate zones will have crazier extremes than in the past.
While the temperature increase is an average, the increase in extreme temperatures will be non-linear.
- teractiveodular 2y agoThis. For example, "Tokyo's average temperature increases from 58.3°F to 63.6°F and remains in Temperate" sounds distinctly meh, unless you've actually suffered your way through a stiflingly hot Tokyo summer (100° with 80% humidity) and can imagine what it would feel like to add 5° on top of that.
- abdullahkhalids 2y agoAbsolutely. Classifying the number of heat wave days, or cold front days across time would be the type of visualization that's needed. Or the spread in the rainy season. My intuition is that the uncertainty in variance is much higher than the uncertainty in the average. So, it's more difficult to make concrete predictions that we are reasonably sure will pan out.