I hate when they don't include info on how to READ easily-shareable images like this. Put it in the PICTURE, science communicators! OP is in the minority here by providing the source.

Red indicates a higher average temperature from the previous year. Blue is the opposite.

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd just have thought they had some absolute scale going. It's a relative scale. This can lead to wildly wrong conclusions. Not in this case as the message would be the same mostly, but still.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Relative scale is worse. Not only that the temperatures keep going up and aren't a fixed "red", but that there's few to no blues now, meaning it's always going up everywhere. And this is actually a more calming way to present it that the usual exponential spike chart.

[–] TonyToniToneOfficial@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

We need a color that's more alarming than red to switch to next

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