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Global Weirding: Visualizing Climate Change

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Re: Global Weirding: Visualizing Climate Change

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Post by kristofferj »

Mithaldu wrote: post #2

Fairly broken in Opera 12. Edit: And in other browsers where it shows stuff, it's a visual clusterfuck. I wonder if the "heatmap" on that globe is based off any real data, or just a plasma function with a curve.

Sorry. It should work in the latest Opera. The heatmap on the globe are actual data stored in PNG-files. If you want to read more about how we did it, you can read more about the project on http://bengler.no/global_weirding

Re: Global Weirding: Visualizing Climate Change

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Post by Mithaldu »

kristofferj wrote: post #3
Mithaldu wrote: post #2

Fairly broken in Opera 12. Edit: And in other browsers where it shows stuff, it's a visual clusterfuck. I wonder if the "heatmap" on that globe is based off any real data, or just a plasma function with a curve.

Sorry. It should work in the latest Opera. The heatmap on the globe are actual data stored in PNG-files. If you want to read more about how we did it, you can read more about the project on http://bengler.no/global_weirding

I'm sorry to see that the product communication of Opera ASA has confused you as well. Opera 15+ is not "the latest" Opera, but merely a clone of chrome that shares quite earnestly and literally zero code with Opera 12 (which is the latest of its respective line); and will likely never be a viable upgrade vector due to also sharing almost none of the features of Opera 12.

Also, thanks for the further reading link. :)

It's quite interesting already. And i note in the gif down the middle of the page that on mobile only one event is ever on screen, while in chrome i often had 5+ on screen, with very little space inbetween them. If you spaced it out more on desktop, it would become much more grokkable.

Edit: There's also the fact that i have a hard time distinguishing between land and see, between the globe rotating wildly and the colors washing across it.

Re: Global Weirding: Visualizing Climate Change

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Post by josho »

I love good visualizations, this one is neat. Unfortunately the visuals don't carry much data with it. That is, it didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know--climate change will provide more extreme (hot/cold) weather patterns.

Even worse, viewing this almost makes me less inclined to worry about climate change. That is in nearly a decade the leading headline is jellyfish closing down a power plant. Hmm, ok, let's spend trillions of dollars to fix climate change, or a few million to upgrade power plant water intake systems to protect against jellyfish swarms.

So, seeing this I sadly now understand why politicians and companies are greenwashing everything. Talk is cheap and will get you support, but the consequences of the problem won't be seen until you are well into retirement.

Re: Global Weirding: Visualizing Climate Change

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Post by rcthompson »

I think the globe visualization would be more useful if it factored out the seasonal cycle of temperature changes and just showed the smooth change in average yearly temperature instead. As it is, everything cycles between hot and cold every year and it's difficult to tell if the amplitude is changing.
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