Sea Level Rise: It's not that simple

Well, it is at the basic level: global warming = less glaciers & warmer oceans ==> sea level rise. But, there's more to that story.

• Sea level rise is so much more than melting ice (6:08 minutes)
• What is sea level? (3:25 minutes)

The Temperature Spiral (1880 - 2021)

Nice animation here: GISTEMP Climate Spiral. It's nice that they offer various ways to download the video - including an animated GIF would be nice & the underlying data as an easy-to-use table.

Dollar Street

Dollar Street is pretty cool - a great addition to more 'objective' stats about human development and welfare. This - combined with something like Google StreetView - would make for great learning experiences in a World Regional Geography or Cultural Geography class.

Zonal Climate Anomalies

Nice animation by NASA, showing the so-called 'Arctic Amplification' of global warming: Zonal Climate Anomalies. However, this is a classic case of something that's too fancy, too complicated, and uses too much visual fireworks. It's cool from a technical point-of-view, but not effective in terms of communicating 'zonal climate anomalies' to the public.

Socially-Relevant Stats Lessons

This could be useful: https://skewthescript.org/ap-stats-curriculum

The Legacy of Redlining

Not Even Past is a great data viz / web map comparing redlining in the 1930s to the CDCs Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) scores. The interactive diagram visualizes changes, e.g. cementing of privilege, decline of relative privilege, or gentrification.

Not Even Past: Social Vulnerability and the Legacy of Redlining explains how to use it and Downloads & Data provides, well, access to the data. Details for each city can also be accessed via Mapping Inequality.

For additional context and examples, read The Lasting Legacy Of Redlining.

1895 to 2021 Warming - US Counties

Nice & simple map by The Guardian: compare 1985 to 2021 and see if the warming in a given county has exceeded the 1.5 C warming: A third of Americans are already facing above-average warming.

Pumped Storage Hydropower

This is an old technology that's becoming popular again: pumped hydropower.

• Pumped Storage Hydropower (great video!)
• Blakers et al. (2021): A review of pumped hydro energy storage
• Blakers et al. (2022): Forget batteries. This 100-year-old technique provides cheap energy storage for wind and solar power

https://www.energy.gov/eere/water/pumped-storage-hydropower

Grand Ball Given by the Whales

More context here.