I invite readers to list all the things wrong with this bit of agitprop by Ed Hawkins (a lead author in AR6; perhaps this foreshadows the tone of the report). It’s going viral on the Left.
“Warming stripes” at Climate Lab Book.
‘A new set of climate visualisations, communicating the long term rise in temperatures for particular locations as a changing set of colours from blue to red. Each stripe represents the temperature of a single year, ordered from the earliest available data to now.”
Here shows graphics for Central England, continental US, Toronto, and (below) “Annual global temperatures from 1850-2017. The colour scale represents the change in global temperatures covering 1.35°C.”
His Tweet: https://twitter.com/ed_hawkins/status/999242147135188993
The inevitable fawning articles in the media: “This Has Got to Be One of The Most Beautiful And Powerful Climate Change Visuals We’ve Ever Seen” at Science Alert — “We are headed into the red.” The author is listed (with unintentional irony) at “Staff – Science as Fact.”
h/t to Larry Kummer
May I suggest using the colour of my bromeliad as the calibration. It experiences about a ten degree difference during the day and is a good representation of why the concern for global warming.
http://www.solidbackgrounds.com/images/1280×720/1280×720-dark-green-solid-color-background.jpg
In middle school my mom made me wear a shirt with a pattern that looked just like this. It scarred me for life.
Well, just to assure myself that Earth is not really in any imminent danger, I checked the MODIS satellite shots again yesterday.
The meltback line for the past winter’s snow fields in Canada has not QUITE reached the thumb of Hudson’s Bay. Plenty of snow still up there, boys and girls. I’m sure the CAGWers, Warmians, and Hot Earthers will be sadly disapoited to find out that the ice is still there.
I feel for them. I do… sort of. They will have to find another means of scaring us, perhaps at the coffee shop over a tripple whipped soy latte half caff decaff bit of fluff with a tablespoon of soy protein included as part of that meal. And they will find no solution for their angst. They will have to call their day care platoon leaders and mourn the demise of the Great Warming Scam, as it slowly oozes its way into the cesspit below the coffee shop… and they will wonder what that howling is, and where the smell is coming from. It’s just their hormonal shifts from consuming phytoestrogens ad infinitum. They will need time on the quiet chair, facing the corner of the room.
Meantime, the ski resorts and guides for snowy mountain climbers will be very, very busy people.
What he’s done is to color everything below the average as blue and anything above the average as red. The white is probably the average. Pure propaganda for the no-nothings.
The graph would be better used to describe the poltical shift in working-class American states
Reminds me of the Caribbean Sea colored boiling red hot in the maps of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”. Just propaganda techniques.
That rainbow flag doesn’t have near enough colors for the parade.
There’s nothing correct with this picture.
The picture does not have a perfect gradient. Its random
This is a coloured in Hockey Stick, nothing more, nothing less.
It is totally inappropriate to present the data that way. They should just plot temperature vs time. It would be more meaningful to show a much longer time span so that one could compare the current Modern Warm Period with what happened with other warm and cool periods during the Holocene.
http://i67.tinypic.com/kw5c9.jpg
That looks like what happened to my Samsung smart tee-vee a month after the warranty expired.
Speaking of temperature, why are all these windmill fires only “rare” when in fact are they always cooked “very well done”?
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.kcci.com/article/wind-turbine-fire-could-be-seen-for-miles/20917855
Time for some new chefs.
Or just a Cook to cook the books?
I may have missed the bus on this one, but the graphic in the lead post looks like the bar code on the toilet bowl brush that I picked up at the dollar store.
The problem appears to be that there are a lot of people who don’t want to see a warming trend go from blue to red. I suggest red to blue or maybe green to orange so they stop crying.
Looks like the color scale demonstrates everyone thought the democrats were going to win the election but at the end the truth came out.
😎
Some of us are old enough to remember when the MSM, at that time ABC, CBS and NBC, used color on an election map in the US. There was no standard. One of them did use red and blue but the Reds were Democrats and the Blues Republicans.
Of course, back then, we still had Red China and Hollywood was making movies about the Russian revolution called “Reds”.
The colors have been switched and standardized now. Mustn’t give the right impression!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states
Well the scare is over. You can’t get any more red, so it can’t get any hotter!
The “scare” has always been in the infrared. You know, the band were nobody can see it without looking through a model.
(I was going to try to work in “a pair” (of glasses) and a model that looks good but decided to leave it a family friendly comment.8-)
That temperature series goes back to 1750. One hundred years earlier than what is shown. If the entire Central England temperature series was shown it would look very different.
Heat maps are an abomination.
If you did a graphic of a warming of 0.01 degrees over 1000 years,
you could get exactly the same picture.
I’m not sure the number of stripes and number of years match. …. but then I’m not going to waste my time counting either. But I don’t see 170 stripes on that picture!
Matrix for climate change:
“You like the blue lines – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You like the red lines – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes to the truth.”
http://www.gestaltreality.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/morpheus-red-pill-blue-pill.jpg
Um … with respect to the Kelvin scale, red is cooler, blue is hotter.
Pat Frank at 10:14 am made that observation. Beat me to it too.
Climate Change is about emotional appeal. The environmental Save the Planet lie.
No science required.
Well not Kelvin scale, right? But the higher temperature, the bluer light. There is even such a thing as color temperature.
Now do one for crop yields and life expectancy. Ah,, right, pretty clear where we are heading there too.
The Width of the stripes is not defined in terms of units of time or dates, and the direction of time is assumed to be labeled from 19thC to 21stC from left to right. This assumption is rather poor form for a scientific report and is left to our imaginations. Rather it illustrates how our brains’ narrative creative abilities fill in the missing time labeling based on prior temp graphics and the effect of bias built into our brains through media propaganda and the junior varsity hockey team of MBH to expect the most recent times to be warmer than the past. Color perception is also a product of genetics, gender, ambient light, intact macular retinal cones, culture, language, artistic training, etc. Color is a subjective construct of the brain. Not a universal language to report results that transcends limitations of color blindness, male X chromosome inheritance, cultural linguistic terms,etc.
First of all, this is not a visualization, this is so called global warming art, an extreme left/green humanist activist approach to something that’s mostly in the domain of engineering.
What is the start year in the graph? That’s not shown. What is the start year of significant CO2 rise in atmosphere? A lot of warming happened before that. Not shown. Red is for both warm and danger, which is an artistic cliche used a lot. This art can’t be kept up-to-date as it has total scale of -1.00 to 1.00, where temps are usually measured in degrees, not as an average of median anomaly per cent.
But the most insulting feature is the French flag color scheme, that hits right at the sides of my nose because I have partial tritanopia.