Anarchism

Exactly what I was thinking. There are 3 different off-white colors that indicate vastly different temperature variants. This map is incredibly ambiguous. Which white zones are -8° below average, roughly the same as average, or 13° above average?

Why the fuck is there white between red and red?

I might be the only one who doesn’t mind the color scheme. For the temperature range on the map, the only colors that don’t fit into the typical blue-to-red gradient are the green for really cold, which makes the coldest anomalies really pop, and the white for really hot. I get the complaints about white being used for both normal average temperature and for extreme heat, but it’s easy to tell which is which by the neighboring colors, and it almost looks as if France got so hot that it got a third degree burn, which chars the flesh, nerves included, and no longer feels like anything - thus insensate white.

So MAYBE, and I'm pulling this out of my ass with no background here, but expectation is temperature doesn't jump, but flows as a gradient. Using France as the start, we've white fading to dark greys then reds, which is the hottest of the three white possibilities. As going hotter then that gets pink again, the top end is white in France. We then decrease down the scale until we get those. green pockets. Light green/white touching green would signify the lower of the three white temps. Not a great map, but perhaps it's an understood practice with the field. After all, how do you convert a quantitative scale into qualitative data. You can't really just number everything (people have shit attention spans and they'll gloss over immediately. Anybody who's delivered technical data to management can attest to that lol) Color works well for that, but has a limited useful spectrum. Getting too specific in a single spectrum muddies the graphic (what's the exact color over Lisbon here? This kinda salmony guy? So 8? Or closer to 9?)

There seems to be three different values for white.

Many just can't escape it, for many reasons. People are dying, and this will only become more and more common and even worse. We only see the short term effects now too, it'll be so much worse after some years when the long term effects become clear. Crops dying, water shortages, infrastructure damage etc.

Deviation to the average temperature. So its 13 K above the average. Or in other words around 42-44°C

Edit: oh you were complaining about the colormap? Yeah its super shit

The color scale is definitely... a choice but it is not ambiguous. There is only one "path" that goes red, then black, then white.

it was too hot. France has evaporated.

we should stop global warming before we lose a place we care about

Someone running a magnifying glass over there

That's a 57f deviation for us mouth-breathing heathens.

Hot

It's a fucking oven.

That's variation from the average. It could certainly have been presented better.

That's not the temperature. That's the degree to which the temperature is strange.

This will probably start to change if this is now the reality but at least historically the reason Europe didn't have air conditioning was it wasn't worth it for the 4 days of the year that it would be used.

The other reason being that houses won't design to be air conditioned, we don't have ducted heating so if I bought an air conditioner and had it installed in a room it would air condition that room, if I wanted air conditioning in my house I would have to have a unit fitted in each room, that's going to get expensive. Alternatively I could buy this £15 fan from Lidl.

Somewhere they post horrendously bad data color choices

A better climate change map can be posted on

• !climate@slrpnk.net
• !collapse@sopuli.xyz
• !latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world

Amongst others

I think the 2m is for temperatures taken two meters off the ground. What the data range for the average is though, impossible to tell.