Visualizing Climate Change
Teaching and Learning K-12 Climate Change
By “visualizing” we’re talking about more than pictures, we’re talking about how to get our heads around a problem that is very hard for humans to really grasp. It’s too big, too gradual, too invisible. That’s why efforts to “visualize” and communicate different aspects of climate change are so important.
Visualizing Emissions
- 2012 City-wide Building Emissions in 3D (short version)
- 2012 Pumphandle 2012: History of atmospheric carbon dioxide
- 2013 Real time emissions in 2010 with CO2 attributed to 'Carbon Majors'
- 2013 Time-lapse history of global CO2 emissions by humans 1751-2008
- 2014 800,000 Yrs of CO2 - with music
- 2014 Animation showing the UK's greenhouse gas emissions reduction target using to scale carbon spheres.
- 2014 CCS: a 2 degree solution
- 2014 FFDAS Carbon Dioxide emissions
- 2014 Fossil fuels - the rate we use them
- 2014 Pumphandle 2014: History of atmospheric carbon dioxide
- 2014 The world's CO2 emissions
- 2014 University of Plymouth carbon footprint
- 2015 The Most Shocking 1.5 Min Video the World Must See!
- 2017 Black Carbon
- 2019 Black Carbon
- 2019 Climate Change: how to survive past 2050
- 2020 Arctic Methane. Has 2020 triggered a tipping point?
- 2021 Which countries are historically responsible for climate change?
- 2022 Solving for Zero, a great series on climate change
Alternative Ways to Visualize Climate Change
- Anomalies by Country
- Anomalies by Latitude
- Basic Thermometer
- Carbon Budget Remaining
- CO2 Concentration Spiral
- Global Temp Series - Bar Chart
- Global Temp Series 2016 Heat Map
- Global Temp Variation Map
- How Hot In My Lifetime?
- How Many Hiroshimas?
- How Much Warmer Was Your City in 2015?
- Ocean Temp Anomalies to 2014
- Temperatures Spiral to 2100
- The Trillionth Ton
- Time Series Barrel Spiral
- Timeseries Spiral
- What's Causing Global Warming?
Visualizing Global Temperature
- 2018/8 Climate change ‘switchboard’ visualization shows every country on the planet turning red-hot
- 2017/11 This hypnotizing animation shows the incredible trend of global warming
- 2017/8 New Video Visualizes a Century of Global Warming in Just 35 Seconds
- 2016/8 See how Earth is fast approaching a red hot mess
- 2016/7 Scientists have found a perfect illustration of how the climate is spiraling ‘out of control’
- 2016/5 This is the most compelling climate change visualization we’ve ever seen
- Global climate spiral - 1 min silent
- Temperature anomalies arranged by country from 1900
- 2016/12 Visualizing the Warmest August in 136 Years
- Temperature Anomalies by Country to 2017
- Global temperature anomalies as bubble diagrams
- How much warmer than average was 2015?
- .1550 Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature
Sea Level Rise Visualizations
- World Wide Map of Potential Flooding
- Visualization app for sea level rise
- .3530 Surging Seas Risk Finder
- South Florida Sea Level Rise Toolbox
- SF+200′ sea level rise
- Sea Levels Could Rise 8 Feet: See How That Will Drown Your City | Co.Exist | ideas
- Sea Level Rise: New Interactive Map Shows What’s at Stake in Coastal Congressional Districts
- Sea Level Rise in NY City
- Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts
- sea level rise — tina serowski
- HighWaterLine - Visualizing climate change
- Flood Mapping by SLR Meter
- EXTREME SCENARIO 2100
- Climate Central Coastal Risk Screening Tool - Land projected to be below annual flood level in 2100
- 2015/12 China's Coastal Cities, Underwater
- 2015/8 New NASA Model Maps Sea Level Rise Like Never Before (Video)
Interactive Visualizations
- .2078 Which Companies Have Emitted the Most CO2?
- 2016/2 The Times's Classic Weather Chart Now Online with 3,000 Cities
- .0560 How Will Your City Change by 2050?
- .0530 How Has the Climate Changed Since Your Birth?
- How Fast Could Low Carbon Technologies Spread?
- Interactive Map Reveals How Climate Change Could Transform Your City By 2050
- Interactive: Carbon Emissions Past, Present and Future
- Can You Reach Net Zero by 2050?
- .1510 What's Really Warming the World?
- World Population History - An Interactive Experience
If there are categories of visualizations you’d like to see added, contact mark@climatographer.com