In my ongoing attempt to make up for the lack of attention I’ve paid to sites worthy of your attention, allow me to point you to Global Warming Art:
Like all sciences, the study of climate change relies upon a thorough and comprehensive investigation of the data. It is the goal of Global Warming Art to make some of that data accessible to the public through a collection of figures and images that accurately highlight and describe key issues necessary to understanding our world’s changing climate.
In the spirit of free content, this site strives to incorporate and develop materials that may be widely reused by the public at large. All text is licensed under the GNU Free Document License and most images are released under some similar form of generous use license, though individual terms vary. Also in the spirit of free content, this site will seek to build upon free resources from NASA, NOAA, Wikipedia and others. In particular, many terms and important concepts will be green-linked back to Wikipedia in order to provide the reader with more detailed information than is available here. Despite this close integration, Global Warming Art is not part of the Wikimedia family of sites.
Please visit the about page to learn more about this project. If you like what you see here, please also consider making a donation to support the work being done here.
A few examples, just to encourage you to click on through:
Been browsing this site for awhile now. Very cool stuff. As a data visualization programmer and amateur graphics artist, I’ve been trying to think of eye-catching ways to represent some of this stuff in large format that would help convey its seriousness. In a country driven by flashy appearance and a laziness toward reading, I think this is an important avenue.
Mark: It can be a challenge. My background is in economics, computers, and tech writing (don’t ask), so I’ve had lots of experience with trying to present data to newcomers in a way that’s illuminating without being deceiving. I wish I had a dollar for every time some sure-fire graphics treatment looked terrible and had to be discarded…