Beautiful but worrying 🌍

From World must exit ‘highway to climate hell’, UN boss warns, as records are again broken

Data Is Beautiful @lemmy.ml Beautiful but worrying 🌍

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I know I’m preaching to the choir but we need to do more and yesterday.

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- Elect me and I’ll set a goal by 2040 that we will consider a policy to begin looking at doing more.
  
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  That's crazy talk! Just mentioning that made my shares in FuckThisPlanetOilForLife drop by 0.0000001 percent! You'll ruin the economy! Think of the share holders and the rich!
  
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- I'm just listening to assholes vroom-vrooming up and down the nearby thoroughfare day and night. Each and every one is accelerating the problems for everyone, and they can't give a fuck.
  
  I see nascar and f1 and think: what fucking planet is this being broadcast from?
  
  India, pakistan and mexico are literally cooking. this week we're predicting heat waves all over the US and Canada even.
  
  How many dead people from heat will it take before someone says "Hey, you know, we could cut out a lot of emissions just by stopping the 'for funs' bullshit"?
  
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  I can offer you worse. Rolling coal is legal here. It’s considered cool to put out lots of black exhaust.
  
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  roblox nascar.
  
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- Meanwhile in the Netherlands we are installing a new government of parties that don't believe in global warming. 😭
  
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  I feel you, we have that coming for us in Germany within the next 10 years.
  
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  Do they also have plans to build more dykes and polders?
  
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Why does this seem like the part of an exponential growth curve where it starts to go asymptotic? Like maybe I'm crazy, but this seems real real bad.

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- Not crazy, it is real real bad.
  
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This representation looks pretty

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- First thing I noticed too! Gorgeous graph.
  
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Source of graphic

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- Thanks, added to the post-text.
  
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February looks like it is gunning for someone... what a worryingly consistent increase.

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This is a great image but every month looks like Saddam Hussein hiding underground

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We had a tool for these blobs, it was called histogram. Looks pretty though.

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- You are missing the subtleties of this presentation that goes well beyond a histogram. This is a very nice layout that shows variability by month and decade.
  
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  Okay right, the colour code is extra.
  
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