Climate Change Graphics
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Are there more tornadoes because of global warming?
Posted by Greg Laden on May 21, 2013 
There are good reasons to believe that global warming leads to more storminess, but the exact nature of that transition is unclear and hard to measure. Part of the reason for this difficulty is that a given type of storm may become more likely under certain conditions caused by climate change, while a different kind…
Bangladesh and Sea Level Rise
Posted by Greg Laden on April 29, 2013 
You’ve all heard about the horrible tragedy in Bangladesh, still unfolding. Not to distract from that event, or diminish its importance, I thought it would be interesting to have a look at that low lying country in relation to long term sea level rise caused by climate change. I am making no claim here about…
Arctic Sea Ice Loss Due to Global Warming
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2013 Andy Lee Robinson’s latest visualo-info-graphico-depiction of the loss of Arctic Sea Ice:
Global Warming Skepticism In Decline
Posted by Greg Laden on April 9, 2013 
There is a new Gallup poll that together with earlier data from Gallup provides some interesting information about attitudes in the US about global warming. Earlier polls have shown increase and decrease in concern about global warming, and changes in what people think of news about climate change and the severity of the problem. Recently,…
Scientific Rejection of Global Warming
Posted by Greg Laden on April 6, 2013 Don’t hold your breath: source After I made this graph I found out that there is a version of it HERE with more info on the background.
The Climate Hockey Stick is Wrong!
Posted by Greg Laden on March 22, 2013 This is a hockey stick: This is the Grim Reaper’s Scythe: This is global temperature over the last 10,000 years projected into the immediate future using good scientific estimates: You decide. Should the Hockey Stick be replaced with the Grim Reaper’s Scythe? More information on the climate change graphic HERE. See more climate change graphics…
Arctic Sea Ice: A System In Collapse
Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2013 
For the last 25 years or so there has been a decrease in the amount of ice that remains on the surface of the Arctic Ocean every summer. This is a trend that can be attributed to global warming, which in turn, can be attributed to the steady release of previously fossilized Carbon to the…
Climate Change vs. Global Warming
Posted by Greg Laden on February 20, 2013 This is being discussed here, thought I’d show you this:
US Drought
Posted by Greg Laden on February 14, 2013 From US Drought Monitor:
CO2 and Ocean Acidification
Posted by Greg Laden on February 11, 2013 This graphic is from GRID-Arendal, a Norwegian Foundation collaborating with the UN Environment Programme. It shows CO2 concentrations in the ocean going up over a period of 20 eyars, and the corresponding drop in pH over the same time period. Ocean acidification is a serious effect of climate change. There are more climate change related…
Extreme Weather in the US Northeast and Climate Change
Posted by Greg Laden on February 8, 2013 This graph shows the extremes in one-day precipitation in a given month relative to the amount of precip in that month for the Northeastern US. So, if the green bar is at 30%, that means that that 30% of month’s precip fell in one event. The way this is computed is a little complicated because…
Global Warming = Drought = Higher Food Prices
Posted by Greg Laden on February 8, 2013 Here’s a graph from the USDA: This comes from a post by Peter Sinclair: USDA: Warming Will Devastate Agriculture. Also from that post, this interview with Phil Robertson of Michigan State University related to the question of C02 as “plant food.”
“Belief” in Climate Change, The Weather, and Political Party
Posted by Greg Laden on February 7, 2013 It seems that people “believe” in climate change (really, global warming in particular) when it it hot out more than at other times. And by “people” I mean the population in general. It turns out that Democrats don’t change their position on climate change as the temperature outside changes (they already know it is real)…
Annual Amount of Carbon Released Into Atmosphere
Posted by Greg Laden on February 6, 2013 Here are two graphs that show the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere, mainly as CO2 and mainly form the burning of fossil fuels, per year, from various sources for a long span of time. Both graphs are based on the same data set. the first graph was created by the Carbon Dioxide Information…
Arctic Sea Ice Extent (reduction of): Graphic
Posted by Greg Laden on February 3, 2013 Here’s a graph showing the extent of arctic sea ice as measured directly and indirectly for the last several hundred years: This graphic is from Skeptical Science, where you can also download a higher res version and learn more about the background for these data. Also, on that page is a link to a large…
How can anyone think that global warming isn’t real? Here’s how:
Posted by Greg Laden on February 2, 2013 Skeptical Science is a great source for information about climate change. One of the coolest things they’ve got over there is a moving GIF demonstrating how the folks in the climate science denialism industry try to convince people that global warming isn’t real. This involves cherry picking data to show small segments of time with…
Global Temperatures since 1850
Posted by Greg Laden on February 1, 2013 Anthropogenic global warming is a long term phenomenon that is caused by the release of Carbon, in the form of Carbon Dioxide, from fossil deposits, though burning of fuels such as oil, natural gas, and coal. There are other human causes as well, but some of those relate to the use of fossil fuels (such…
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