Climate Science 1956: A Blast from the Past

 

Mapping Parking Lots

Is Your Town a Parking Lot? by Maps Mania is a nice compilation of parking lot web maps/apps.

Open Topography

Great option for topographic data: Open Topography

Climatological Database for the World's Oceans, 1750-1850

This is cool: Climatological Database for the World's Oceans, 1750-1850. But, the map also highlights one of the fundamental problems of weather & climate data: uneven spatial coverage.

Energy Literacy

It all starts with the commodity flow charts created by LLNL:

• Energy Flow Charts
• Carbon Flow Charts

Then there's the interactive and more-detailed version here: http://www.departmentof.energy/

The White Mountains Maps

Great design by Andy Woodruff - a new map of the White Mountains in the style of the classic US National Park maps: White Mountains "National Park" Map.

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.