Wikipedia's Climate Data on an Interactive Map

This map/visualization was quite popular this week: Wikipedia's Climate Data on an Interactive Map. I still think these Voronoi maps are ugly and the map seems a bit wonky - I can't figure-out the month wheel. The animated GIFs are fun:

Arctic Ocean Sea Ice 1979 to 2014

Here's another nice animated map with embedded chart: Arctic Ocean Sea Ice 1979 to 2014

Water on Mars!

Cool Story Map: Discovering Liquid Water on Mars

Naomi and Francis

Naomi Oreskes always has interesting things to say about the nexus between climate science and its political, social, and economic implications. Have a look at the recent piece As Pope Francis Meets America, a Climate Science Scholar Offers a Fresh View of the Encyclical for her thoughts on that.

Years You Have Left to Live, Probably

Very cool from FlowingData: Years You Have Left to Live, Probably is a life-expectancy simulator.

The Us of Energy

This is pretty nice: the US of ENERGY (I especially like the Compare option).

Sustainable Growth and Resilience Data Gateway

Talk about packing buzz words into a title: Gateway Supports Sustainable Growth and Resilience. Unfortunately, the actual data gateway is far less impressive in terms of design, functionality, and available data.