Death & Global Warming

 Explore the links between climate change, temperature and human mortality: Will global warming make temperature less deadly? In-short: More deaths from heat, less from cold. The article / data viz also links the peer-reviewed papers visualized.

ICESat-2 Topography across the Super Bowl

That's just cool: mapping the topography across the Super Bowl LVII stadium with ICESat-2: A Super View of Arizona.

The World Data Viz Prize (2023)

Explore & get inspired @ https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/world-dataviz-prize-2023-shortlist/. I like the distinction between static & interactive.

And here are the winners!

Scrollytelling Video Story Map

Not sure what you would call it, but it slick: The Tragedy of North Birmingham

Let's Move!

Okay, let's assume that we a) want to move and b) have the ability to move - where are the safest places and the most-risky places in the USA in terms of climate change impacts?

• THIS Is the Safest Place to Live in the US as the Climate Changes
• Which U.S. Cities Are Safest From Climate Change?
• Is the Great Lakes Region Ready for an Influx of Climate Migrants?
• What is the RISKIEST Region in the US as the Climate Changes?

Much of this is based on this ProPublica report: New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States. The maps and visuals arr great, but scroll-down all the way to the table that ranks all counties in the USA.

For context, here is the economic side of the argument: Estimating Economic Damage from Climate Change in the United States.

Lekan 2.2

Need to do some hydrological modeling? Try Lekan 2.2 (free, open-source, based on QGIS).

Thanks Esri...

Thanks Esri for making this whole Story Maps thing even more complicated: first there was the 'classic' Story Maps with all the great templates, then came in 'new' Story Maps with the cool immersive blocks, and now we get https://storymaps.com/. I'm just wondering what happened @ Esri behind the scenes...anyways...here's the official word from Esri: Esri’s Storytelling Solutions: An Overview.