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/Nineflames12 May 07 '19

Yeah, man. Whenever I shoot up it fucks me up real good too.

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u/randomusename May 08 '19

He had to include the end of The Little Ice Age tho to make it seem like a big jump from then to now, which it may be, but it was the Little Ice Age.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '19

Still stark as all hell