“Men argue. Nature acts.”*…
Scientists have converged on climate change predictions that a growing majority of Americans accept. Still, it can be hard to understand– at a visceral level– what a warming globe might mean. Here’s some help: a clever tool from Greg Schivley, a civil and environmental engineering PhD. student at Carnegie Mellon University (with help from Ben Noll; inspired by Sophie Lewis). Enter some key birth dates to project how the climate will have changed from your grandma’s birth to when your kids retire. The chart’s temperature changes are based on NASA’s historical and projected climate scenarios.
“Climate change and life events”
* Voltaire
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As we sweat it out, we might send temperate birthday greetings to Sir William Napier Shaw; he was born on this date in 1854. A meteorologist and member of the Royal Society, he developed the tephigram, a diagram of temperature changes still commonly used in weather analysis and forecasting.
