Mapping Climate Proxy Records

This is great: Mapped: How ‘proxy’ data reveals the climate of the Earth’s distant past. The interactive map is great, but also the background information. Obviously, this type of research is extremely important, after all: the past is the key to the future. That being said, nobody is really interested in this - people want to learn about the climate change impacts on their own lives. I used to include paleoclimatology as a significant part of my Climate Change course, but dropped it in-favor of exploring solutions in more depth.

The Bee!

 

The Data Journalism Handbook

The Data Journalism Handbook has been updated: buy the physical copy or get the PDF for free. Awesome.

Colors!

Great advice and discussion by Lisa Charlotte Rost from Datawrapper:

• How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations
• Which color scale to use when visualizing data (4-part series)

Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet

Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet is an excellent new OER textbook about sustainable energy = the updated version of https://www.withouthotair.com/.

KartaView

KartaView is the open version of Google Street View - cool.

Let's Plant 1 Trillion Trees!

For context, consider: The Surprising Truth Behind Planting Trees and Climate Change and The surprising downsides to planting trillions of trees.

Bird Migration Forecast

The Bird migration forecast maps are cool and simple: just a daily static map. Nothing fancy or interactive that would add 'visual junk'. 

'Seeing' CO2

This is cool: https://extraordinaryfacility.com/co2/

Texas and Wind Turbines

No, the power outages in Texas were not caused by freezing-up wind turbines - that's a fact, not an opinion. This Fox News lie is a classic red herring: attacking wind turbines instead of what they really want to attack: Joe Biden's climate plan.

• The Insane Lies About The Texas Blackouts is a great video (9:52 minutes). Also check-out the rest of this YouTube channel.
• The Rise Of Wind Power In The U.S. (17:21 minutes) offers some great context.

Deforestation in Papua

Deforestation in Papua is a great example what can happen between 2002 and 2019.

Five questions for better data communications

This is a great post: Five questions for better data communications walks you through a data viz process.

 Here's a great quote: I slowly came to realize that I was assigning my audience the tedious task of figuring out for themselves what the takeaways were. My visuals should have been highlighting the interesting things to those seeing them for the first time.

High Tide Flooding

 Also called nuisance flooding or sunny-day flooding - one of the first and most-noticeable impacts of global warming and associated sea-level rise. The High Tide Flooding App is pretty slick and you can look at different high tide flooding probability scenarios through 2100.

The Gulfstream

Great animation by The New York Times of ocean circulation in the North Atlantic and how it may be impacted by melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet: In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers

RAWGraphs 2.0

Sounds like RAWGraphs got an update (awesome): https://rawgraphs.io/

All Colleges & Universities

The Complete Directory: U.S. Colleges & Universities is a pretty impressive interactive infographic with charts, maps, pop-ups, and more - all rendered in Tableau. And that may be the problem: Tableau is great, but I'm not sure it is suitable for such a large and complex data viz.

Arctic Fog

Arctic Fog is pretty neat: explore the NW or the NE Passage.