Environment/weather - Chart Porn

Modify your habits from the “average” and see how it impacts your footprint. Click on the ?’s to see what’s behind each category. There’s some discussion of the methodology here.

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The Kyoto Protocol

In: Environment/weather Science

25 Nov 2009

GHG emmissions

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Great Lakes Infographic

In: Environment/weather Innovative Maps

16 Nov 2009

Combines relative elevation, depth, and volume. I’m not so sure they needed to be overlapping (maybe vertically staked would have been better?), but it’s still a nice graphic. (from wikipedia’s Great Lakes page, via Kelso’s corner)

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Dogs are Bad for the Environment

In: Culture Environment/weather Science

8 Nov 2009

An odd graphic looking at the green footprint of pets; based on a New Scientist article.

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Hurricane Tracker

In: Environment/weather Interactive Maps Science

8 Nov 2009

Another historical look at hurricanes. This one has a number of very interesting filters and sliders. I wish someone would do something like this for recessions (not on a map, obviously). (via Vizworld)

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Death by “Natural Causes”

In: Environment/weather Science

5 Nov 2009

Stats on animal related deaths, with some odd first-person descriptions. (via fancystats)

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World Opinions on Climate Change

In: Environment/weather Innovative Politics Science

29 Oct 2009

An interesting use of 3d cubes to display polling results. The polling questions are also much better constructed than the usual “do you think climate change is happening?”

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Endangered Species Map

In: Environment/weather Maps Science

25 Oct 2009

The data is only disaggregated at the country level, but it’s still interesting.

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Hidden Content

In: Environment/weather Science

21 Oct 2009

I’m starting to think that Good must be TRYING to design these so poorly. I suppose it’s one way to get us to notice the data (since we have to hunt around for it). I’ll leave it to JunkCharts or someone else to enumerate the number of ways this is bad.

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Coal Plants

In: Environment/weather Maps

21 Oct 2009

Coal is central to a lot of energy and environment issues, but I’d never seen a map of where they were.

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Environmental Trends and Basic Data

In: Environment/weather Science

18 Oct 2009

I like this one because it uses colors to represent trends, which is nice when you are trying to display indicators that are on completely different scales.

The same site, the United Nations Environment Programme, has a number of great environment-related infographics:

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Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change

In: Environment/weather Interactive Maps Politics Science

15 Oct 2009

In honor of today being 2009’s Blog Action Day, I present below a series of recent climate change visualizations:

First up, “Kyoto: Who’s on Target”, which uses interesting nested circles for indicators of compliance. (via)

From the Washington Post, an interactive view of carbon emissions from G20 countries (either total or per capita) with a slider to move from 1950 through 2006. Easily missed, you can also click on a countries name on a list below that bubble chart (or on the “country profile” tab) to drilldown to individual countries. The October 5 part of the “special report” also contained a nice overview map.

Next, a treemap of cumulative CO2 emissions (1751-2006):

Breathing Earth‘s CO2 emissions simulator:

another interactive CO2 emissions map:

and if you doubt what effects CO2 levels are having, and whether global warming is something to worry about, please go read the “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States” report.