This is a great example of communication fail in the world of climate change:
- Take a look at the IPCC AR5 WG1 SPM with its 10 figures - can you figure-out what is going on?
- Try ranking them in terms of their visual complexity and ease of comprehension.
- Then compare your thoughts with this recent paper: Communication of IPCC visuals: IPCC authors’ views and assessments of visual complexity (Harold et al. 2020, Climatic Change).
This is a striking demonstration of a real problem: how can we (the scientific experts) anyone to care about what we are saying if we are giving them charts like that?
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