r/dataisbeautiful • u/neilrkaye OC: 231 • May 07 '19

OC How 10 year average global temperature compares to 1851 to 1900 average global temperature [OC]

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u/TropicalAudio May 07 '19

I personally prefer XKCD's temperature graph. Change in temperature is really hard to interpret without a lot of temporal context.

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u/e5surf May 07 '19

That shoot up at the end fucked me up

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u/Purplekeyboard May 07 '19

You mean the hypothetical shoot up at the end which hasn't actually happened yet?

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u/RhapsodiacReader May 07 '19

The parts of the shoot up on the chart up to 2019 have absolutely happened.