How can data help you understand the reality of climate change? In this interactive resource, you explore global temperature anomaly trends through different visualizations, including a global anomaly map, warming stripes, and a line chart with model predictions. Your task is to make sense of what the visuals show and how they relate to one another. By working with these representations, you build skills in interpreting data and begin to see how evidence about climate change can be communicated in powerful ways.
Connecting Visuals of Climate Change
Slide the slider to watch the data unfold and discover the story each chart tells.
To use the interactive tool above, you can consider the following guiding questions:
- What do the colors on the global anomaly map represent? For example, in 1880, the South Pole shows red. What could this mean?
- What does each stripe on the warming stripes chart represent and how does it relate to the map’s colors?
- What does the height of each point on the line chart show and how does it connect to the stripes?
- The line chart includes a model. How do you think this model was created?
Happy exploring!