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Edit The Guardian 23 Sep 2016

From Afropunk to My Dad Wrote A Porno. your at-a-glance guide to the best in free culture up and down the country. Music. Afropunk ... This inauguralUK event, at Ally Pally today, was met with controversy over booking and then dropping MIA from its bill ... My Dad Wrote A Porno ... Damned ... XKCD ... XKCD recently went viral with a cartoon chart of climate change since the Earth’s creation, a strip which managed to both to be funny and utterly terrifying....

Greenland's ice sheet is melting faster than expected

Edit Business Insider 22 Sep 2016

If the Earth's crust had a theme song, it would probably be Chumbawamba's '90's classic "Tubthumping". Allow me to explain. In a paper published Wednesday in Science Advances, researchers led by Shfaqat A ... So first some background ... That crusty outer layer is called the Earth's crust ... (To put those 20,000 years in perspective see this xkcd comic for a visual of how climate has changed since then.) ... More from Popular Science . ... ....

This May Be The Warmest Earth Humans Have Ever Experienced

Edit Yahoo Daily News 20 Sep 2016

(Image.NOAA) ... But if some all-knowing God forced you to bet your life on which year in human history was the warmest, betting on 2016 would certainly reduce your risk of death over choosing most other periods ... This disturbing streak already set its own record for record-breaking earlier this year ... The conversation was inspired by the recent XKCD comic illustrating 22,000 years of climate change that went viral over the last week ... change....

Epic Climate Cartoon Goes Viral But It Has One Key Problem

Edit National Public Radio 15 Sep 2016

From anthrax outbreaks in thawing permafrost to rice farms flooded with salty water, climate change seems to play a bigger and bigger role in global health each year. But sometimes it can be hard to grasp what all the numbers and stats mean ... Now a cartoon from Randall Munroe, a former roboticist at NASA, helps put the numbers into perspective. Before scrolling through it, check out those axes. Along the x-axis is temperature change ... XKCD....

TRUMP: Claims of global warming still ‘need to be investigated'

Edit Business Insider 14 Sep 2016

Thomson Reuters. Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Jill Stein have all answered 20 questions from the website sciencedebate.org about science. Particularly interesting are their answers to this question (emphasis mine). ... Gary Johnson has not yet submitted his responses ... Think that's probably a result of natural trends? Allow Randall Munroe of XKCD to explain with a beautiful data visualization just how unlikely that is ... Trump ... Trump ... ....

xkcd Takes on Global Warming

Edit Slate 13 Sep 2016

My friend Randall Munroe is a wonder ... In a recent issue of his web comic xkcd he tackles global warming, and literally turns it sideways. Instead of plotting temperature vertically and time on the horizontal axis as is usually done, he makes time vertical, starting 22,000 years ago ... [Note ... It’s a slap in the face. This isn’t the first time Randall has tackled global warming in an xkcd comic, but it’s certainly the most astonishing ... ....

When someone tells you, “The climate is always changing,” show them this cartoon

Edit Grist 13 Sep 2016

This epic webcomic was created by Randall Munroe, the artist behind xkcd, one of our favorite places for simplifying complicated scientific concepts ...   ... File away under ... ....

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Edit Denver Post 13 Sep 2016

Folks, I feel like this week got off to a slow start ... Today’s going to be different. I can feel it. Join me ... Let’s. Get. Busy ... 1 in 5 ... + One of my least favorite climate change denial tactics is the claim that “well, temperature has changed before and everyone was fine.” Randal Munroe, the genius behind xkcd.com, illustrated, in detail, a simple timeline of human history as compared to the global average temperature ... ....

Yes, the climate has always changed. This comic shows why that’s no comfort.

Edit Vox 12 Sep 2016

Randall Munroe, the author of the webcomic XKCD, has a habit of making wonderfully lucid infographics on otherwise difficult scientific topics. Everyone should check out today’s edition on global warming. It’s a stunning graphic showing Earth’s recent climate history. Take some time with it. Stroll through the events like the domestication of dogs and the construction of Stonehenge. And then ponder the upshot here ... (XKCD)....

You think global warming is a sham because ‘climate has changed before?’ Read this comic.

Edit The Washington Post 12 Sep 2016

Randall Munroe posted an XKCD comic on Monday that so perfectly sums up the illogical nature of the most pervasive argument against the existence of man-made global warming. “The climate has changed before.” Let me complete that fallacy with its obvious conclusion. The climate has changed before, therefore man cannot be causing the climate to change now. This is kind of []> ... ....

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