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Global land temperatures since 1900 visualized

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Re: Global land temperatures since 1900 visualized

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Interesting idea, and great visualization. I do think that the timeline controls could be smoother (more refined). Winters are more exciting imo - but there is no way to copy a URI for a specific time :(.

You mean something like http://halftone.co/projects/temperatures/date/2003/4? Good idea, thanks!

Re: Global land temperatures since 1900 visualized

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post #3
post #2

Interesting idea, and great visualization. I do think that the timeline controls could be smoother (more refined). Winters are more exciting imo - but there is no way to copy a URI for a specific time :(.

You mean something like http://halftone.co/projects/temperatures/date/2003/4 ? Good idea, thanks!

FYI: I get a 404 on this link.

Re: Global land temperatures since 1900 visualized

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean something like http://halftone.co/projects/temperatures/date/2003/4 ? Good idea, thanks!

FYI: I get a 404 on this link.

I don't think he was sarcastic, he probably really meant that such shortcut urls are good ideas and thanks the parent for it.

Re: Global land temperatures since 1900 visualized

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Its great - but as far as I can see the north was cold the south was hot until 1990, then the north heated up.

I assumed it was much smoother over the century.

Ok, we're all boned. Impressive visualisation - what did you use - can you do a post on how you built it?

Re: Global land temperatures since 1900 visualized

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Its great - but as far as I can see the north was cold the south was hot until 1990, then the north heated up. I assumed it was much smoother over the century. Ok, we're all boned. Impressive visualisation - what did you use - can you do a post on how you built it?

make sure that you have it on the same month for each year sampled. The dragbar actually changes both year and month. If you instead use the dropdown menu to change the years, it's much more difficult to discern any warming

Re: Global land temperatures since 1900 visualized

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Its great - but as far as I can see the north was cold the south was hot until 1990, then the north heated up. I assumed it was much smoother over the century. Ok, we're all boned. Impressive visualisation - what did you use - can you do a post on how you built it?

It's not as pretty, but NOAA's single graph looks smoother for both hemispheres[0]. Then again, one's an average of an anomaly, the other is averages of real temperatures.

[0]http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/lo-hem/201201-2...

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