Sunday, September 28, 2014

11. Science Graphic of the Week: Three Ways to Visualize Our Melting Northern Ice Cap

The polar ice caps are melting, due to climactic change. To better illustrate this article provides three illustrations. The first is a series of pictures taken every month since 1979, demonstrating the outline of the polar ice caps. The second illustration is a gif that show the volume of water being shed by plotting it on a grid. The third and final illustration is a animation of the earth as seen from outer space showing the fluctuation of 2014.

                Everyone is sick of hearing; the polar ice caps are melting, global warming, and destruction eminent. However this article present in a new and informative way  just real this problem is, and any reader that happens upon this article does not need a PhD to understand the illustrations. The Author, Nick Stockton, relies heavily on other sources in his article, to give credit for the illustrations as well as authenticate his article.  Besides that there is little more to be found than the pictures themselves.  
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/science-graphic-ice-caps/

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