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Masimatutu @mander.xyz

1y ago

Mapping changes in temperature: every year from 1850 to 2023

Red indicates a higher average temperature than the previous year; blue the opposite.

Misleading Thumbnails @lemmy.ca

Otter @lemmy.ca

1y ago

I love watching the sun rise from my window

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I hate when they don't include info on how to READ easily-shareable images like this. Put it in the PICTURE, science communicators! OP is in the minority here by providing the source.
Red indicates a higher average temperature from the previous year. Blue is the opposite.
- I'd just have thought they had some absolute scale going. It's a relative scale. This can lead to wildly wrong conclusions. Not in this case as the message would be the same mostly, but still.
  
  Relative scale is worse. Not only that the temperatures keep going up and aren't a fixed "red", but that there's few to no blues now, meaning it's always going up everywhere. And this is actually a more calming way to present it that the usual exponential spike chart.
- Thanks for pointing it out, I'll add it in the description right away.
  
  Oh no, I hope you didn't think my criticism was directed at you! You linked the source....most others would not. I'm mad at the writers who include these images and graphs without a key.
- I'll complain even further. What is even pictures of ? And what is the horizontal axis?
  
  I thought the horizontal axis was clear - it's each year. Each row is a decade

- This is fine.

yup, we're fucked
- stress_migraine_meme.jpg
- votes for right wing party that doesn't give a fuck about climate change

dataisterrifying

I miss blue

The 2030's will be brown, like burnt toast.

I really want a full-res view of one of these little pictures so I can know where’s where
- What little pictures, it's just a photo of a sunrise /s
  !misleadingThumbnails@lemmy.ca
  
  The time scale on the left is literally in decades, how is this a sunrise
  (judging by how you posted it there you don't seem to be joking)
  Edit: Huh, so that sub is about illusions in the thumbnail, but I don't really think it looks like that

Terrifying to think what the next set of images are going to look like.
Glad I decided not to have kids.

So what is above average? 0.5°? 0.001°? This tells you nothing.
- I assume this community and others like it on other instances are going to be just like the sub Reddit. Sensationalised data presented in a terrible way.
  Before anyone jumps on me - I'm not saying the world isn't heating up.

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