Climate Visualisations and Podcasts

There are two new Climate data visualisations that I've just been reminded of by Kit Rackley.

Carbon Brief's visualisation.

V proud to finally share this:

How the UK transformed its electricity supply in just a decade

A HUGE effort over >1yr, combining 6 datasets, 1,000s of lines of code, 100s of 1,000s of datapoints & the amazing #dataviz skills of @_rospearce

Enjoy!https://t.co/SXMyu7A15R pic.twitter.com/Q7ZureRugD

— Simon Evans (@DrSimEvans) June 12, 2019

Rosamund Pearce and Simon Evans of Carbon Brief worked on this for a year. I love the fact that Rosamund shared an early image showing the idea of the visualisation.

For anyone interested in how I made this interactive, this sketch has some of the details (if you can read my handwriting!) pic.twitter.com/kaRuzznlW4

— Rosamund Pearce (@_rospearce) June 17, 2019

This visualisation is the interactive map that they produced.



Check this out, then head for the second visualisation, created by the Carbon Brief team. Click on a location and you will see past and future temperature change, and can also download the data as a CSV file.

After a ton of work our @CarbonBrief interactive temperature map is finally done! Browse any location in the world to see how the climate has changed in the past and will change in the future. Data for any location can be downloaded as a csv file. https://t.co/PydQbSuUou pic.twitter.com/0VWflauq1h

— Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath) September 26, 2018

And finally, check out this David Wallace-Wells podcast

For ⁦@climateone⁩, I talked with the great ⁦@KHayhoe⁩ about the Uninhabitable Earth, climate storytelling, and how to conjure an enticing picture of a future in a time of cascading change. https://t.co/EpiYaSbbz3

— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) June 30, 2019

WEMC SIG: a new opportunity for resources

WEMC is the World Energy and Meteorology Council.

Yesterday, I attended a webinar to launch a new Education Special Interest Group for the WEMC.

Kit Rackley is leading the whole group, and took us through the plans for developing materials and resources to support educators teaching about climate change.

You can see the WCEM ECEM resource by following this link, and also see Kit's lesson materials, which provided a 'proof of concept' for the need for more developed educational version of the tool. I am excited to be involved in some way in this group as it goes forward.

Details of the webinar are here

Interested in promoting and enhancing meteorology, climate and energy education? We are looking for teachers, educators, academics, industry experts and policy makers passionate about education to join our #Education SIG. Watch our info webcast for info: https://t.co/kfgTjL5Zyc

— World Energy & Meteorology Council (WEMC) (@WEMCouncil) May 31, 2019

You can hear me rambling on from around 39 minutes in. Good to hear from voices in several countries, so this will be an international SIG.

WMEC Teaching Resource

The WMEC is the World Energy and Meteorology Council.
It is based on the UEA Campus.
They have shared some resources.

A teaching pack has been put together by Kit Rackley to show how to use one of their electronic tools. Worth a look.

It can be downloaded from here as a PDF.

Critical Thinking Course in Norwich

East Anglian colleagues are cordially invited to a session organised by Kit Rackley, which will take place in Norwich, hosted at WEMC.

It is part of the courses being offered by the GA in association with the ASE.

First day is on April the 1st, and the second day is in June.

Check your eligibility on this page here and book a place.