Data Is Beautiful

Yes but it's not to late to stop the worse of it, if we keep our governments and companies accountable we can limit the worse of it.

Don't worry now we have AI stuff and it will solve all out problems

AI driven carbon sequestration Temperature reduction with neural networks deep learning

See? You can relax now, silicon valley tech and the invisible hand of capitalism will solve everything

Making data beautiful is what this community is about. But compromising readability for a color scheme is just annoying. Present data first, worry about it being extra pretty second.

We're already looking at time being encoded differently than the usual horizontal axis, don't make it harder.

On the other hand, if the purpose of the graph isn't to present individual data points, but to present the monthly trends, then maybe it would have been OK, if the last 3 decades could have started over with a higher luminance set of colors. IDK but I think I would have used colors with more contrast and dropped the warm earthy theme.

Quite the contrary. I have a red-green deficiency (and so do about 6% of men). Viridis Color scale is pretty nice but two much colors are hard to read for a lot of people

this doesn't add up, Jesus made the world 4,000 years ago

If it’s a cycle, ask them when the dinosaurs will come back. When they say “not like that,” ask if the continents will come back together. When they say that won’t happen, ask them to confirm that everything is changing, except the climate.

Greta Thunberg talks about it in her book - if the bathtub is overflowing in your house and water is spilling across the floor everywhere, step 1 for most people is to turn off the water. Yes sure it is fine to look for towels and buckets to try to contain the damage (and I don’t even disagree with you that it’ll be needed), but that also assumes that they’ll work and there will be political support to deploy them at scale, instead of mustering up the political support to turn the fucking taps down since at this point that’s clearly needed and is relatively speaking much much easier.

I also think that this is what will happen (not only discussed) but unless we master fusion it's practically just fixing a symptom and we'd have to do that for quite a while and the oceans will probably become too acidic.

There already is no alternative. The amount of CO2 released is going to stay high for a long time (centuries?). People are dying from the current weather.

For the expected response: We need to also stop making things worse. Humanity can do two things at once.

Wouldn't aerosols reduce solar irradiance globally, hence reducing the rate of photosynthesis globally...which further reduces natural CO2 capture? How would that help?

I'm just hoping that this past year's jump is due to El Nino and/or higher solar activity and that we have a decade or more before those temps are normal (or low since it'll keep trending upwards for at least 30 years after we stop releasing carbon).

Hoping but not holding my breath.

What month of 2024 dosen't hold the record?

We will probably be underwater in 2030.

I think that I should become a captain in a supertanker...

Because the northern hemisphere is mostly land mass and the southern hemisphere is mostly ocean. Land heats faster and cools faster than ocean, thus the seasonal effects are more pronounced in the data.

Same with CO2 patterns which gives a similar yearly 'breathing effect'

What's your source that there's not warming in the southern hemisphere?

The temperature readings would look different because winter and summer are flipped, but they absolutely should be attributing a similar effect.

The way earth rotate around the sun is not a perfect circle, but more like an ellipse, that plus the earth rotational axis makes the summers and winters of the global north and south don't correspond exactly. This is why there's a difference of ~4 Celsius between average January vs average July.