The Lifespan of News Stories

The Lifespan of News Stories is pretty cool with an animated timeline of 2018 and a matching interactive map below. I wonder if one could 'classify' the shapes of these 'curves' and create a model to predict the level, intensity, and duration (= lifespan) of future news stories.

The Climate Reanalyzer

Good stuff from UMaine: The Climate Reanalyzer, especially their section on Today's Weather Maps.

Earth's Topography

Earth Elevation is a nice data-viz, slicing the Earth's topography and bathymetry along lines of latitude.

GIS in R

There's a (new) MOOC for that: Introduction to GIS in R

What We Could Do.

Great data viz from the NYT - what we could do in terms of emission reductions if we would adopt policies in-place around the world: How to Cut U.S. Emissions Faster? Do What These Countries Are Doing.

Human Terrain

This is awesome: Human Terrain

Cyber GIScience Literacy

Yep, that's a term - read more about it here: Cyber Literacy for GIScience: Toward Formalizing Geospatial Computing Education (Shook et al., 2019).

Interesting read, but it is difficult not to get a little disillusioned when you are actually teaching Introduction to GIS to undergraduates in 2019. I like the inspirational ideas, but let's start with some basic computer literacy (where's my file and why does it matter?) - that's especially a problem for Mac users.

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Katharine Hayhoe @ TEDWoman 2018

Katharine Hayhoe is getting a little overexposed these days, but her message is important in this TED Talk. Even better is her Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe YouTube channel.

3D Printing

Noting new to see here, but some useful links related to 3D printing:

• https://www.myminifactory.com/
• https://www.thingiverse.com/
• OpenSCAD  (3D modelling software)

Shifting Cities Due To Climate Change

Simple and powerful!

• What will summers be like in 2100 for 1001 cities in the USA?
• What will winters be like in 2100 for 1001 cities in the USA?
• What will summers be like in 2100 for cities around the world?
• What will climate feel like in 60 years? (paper)

Why Earthquakes Are So Hard To Predict

Carbon Dioxide and the Climate

This is a classic: Gilbert (1956) Carbon Dioxide and the Climate (reissued).

Where Batteries Begin

Where Batteries Begin has great pictures and information on how and where we get the lithium we need for all these batteries that will solve global warming.

Climate Change in 10 Words

After John Cook: It’s real. It’s us. It’s bad. Experts agree. There’s hope.

2018 Was the Fourth Warmest Year

Nothing to see here: 2018 Was the Fourth Warmest Year, Continuing Long Warming Trend

Urban Footprint

Urban Footprint sounds cool, but even after exploring their website I'm not sure what it really is...they claim that Urban Footprint will allows us to "Teach basic and advanced planning methods without the hassle of traditional GIS systems".