Category: Global Warming

Temperature anomalies arranged by country 1900 - 2018

Created by Antti Lipponen and released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License 

Temperature anomalies arranged by country 1900 - 2018. Visualization based on Berkeley Earth / Robert Rohde data 

GLOBAL WARMING

There’s a great deal of misinformation about climate change.  Some people say the climate isn’t changing; they say that we’ve always had weather.  And when we have colder snap, they insisted it proved global warming isn’t happening.

But weather is not synonymous with climate.  

Weather is the day-to-day state of the atmosphere, and its short-term variation in minutes to weeks. People generally think of weather as the combination of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, visibility, and wind. … Climate is the weather of a place averaged over a period of time, often 30 years.

— “What is the difference between weather and climate?”
National Snow and Ice Data Center

Antti Lipponen’s animated visualization does a lovely job of demonstrating the pattern of climate change over time.

So rather than trying to fight the naysayers, those trying to sound the alarm about global warming stopped trying to fight this battle, and instead started calling the problem Climate Change.

This video is slightly longer than 30 seconds, but I needed it to be much shorter so I could use it to demonstrate the changing climate for a 1 minute campaign video I was producing for my husband’s 2019 election campaign as the Green Party of Canada candidate for Brantford—Brant.  Since Antti Lipponen released the visualization with a free culture license, I was not only able to use it, under the terms of the CC-By licence I was able to reduce it to fit.  The short version works brilliantly in my Green Wave video, but in order to shoehorn it into the necessary space, I’d needed to reduce each year to a single frame.  But the original video is very well worth seeing as well, because of the increasing frequency of multiple temperature anomolies over the years as climate change picks up speed.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL

Despite everything, the “climate change skeptics” continue to deny the existence of human caused Climate Change. Not because the science is faulty— Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) has been accepted by at least 99.9% of publishing climate scientists— but because the fossil fuel industry (and those profiting from it) want to wring as much money out of their holdings as possible, much like the cigarette industry wanted to  suppress the science indicating smoking was hazardous to human health as long as possible so they could continue profiting.