Post #2445909
2026-05-12 05:20 UTC
Replies (9)
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@NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot 2026-05-12 06:14
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us It runs too fast to be clear, but it would be interesting to see how WW 1 and WW 2 affected things. Still horrific though. Climate change deniers need to "get in the sack"!
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@Niall@mastodon.nz 2026-05-12 07:42
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Its good but on my computer when it gets to the last data point it immediately goes back to the start, and stays there. This gives no time to take in the exceptionally quick rise at the end. I feel it should show the final frame at resting. It would make it much easier to digest and easier to show to someone.
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@cytro@mastodon.de 2026-05-12 07:54
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us It looks like an exponential curve ... are we screwed?
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@dianaprobst@mastodon.art 2026-05-12 08:17
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us the XKCD long vertical scroll is also really good, but takes longer. ETA: found URL. https://xkcd.com/1732/
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@karadoc@aus.social 2026-05-12 08:42
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us I've seen a version of this idea which, at the end, rotates the graph in 3D so that you see a vase-like shape curving outwards at a rapidly increasing rate. (1850s at the bottom, 2020s at the top.)
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@nini@oldbytes.space 2026-05-12 08:42
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Feel like I saw this before but made by @ZLabe@fediscience.org, he does a lot of visualisations like this.
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@nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 2026-05-12 08:47
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us One can make a nice visual, no raw data, no sources, and as a result, NO credibility.
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@Photo55@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 09:11
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us A big round thing coming at us fast. Dodging that bullet* would be a good idea, but we have nowhere to go. * Train, trolley, tram if you prefer. If so, the driver needs urgent attention.
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@arrakeen_urbanite@universeodon.com 2026-05-12 09:46
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us I still think a simple line graph communicates clearer. I think what this animation provides is mostly distorting drama, due to linear °C in radial direction amplifying the passage of time as 2πr as temperature go up. On the plus side: 1. The annual cycling of the seasons is naturally captured. However, reasonably intelligent people could get that from a gridline for each year on a linear graph. 2. The animated nature makes the passage of time explicit. Again, though, how little education do you need to understand “horizontal axis equals passing time”? The effort is laudable. I just despair. At this point, you get it that climate change is a problem, or you’re probably either a science-denying head-in-the-sand type, or so heavily invested in resource extraction industries that you need people to ignore it.