The document summarizes a presentation by Zachary Labe on using data visualization to start climate conversations. Labe discusses how simple, bold visualizations of Arctic temperature anomalies and global carbon dioxide levels can communicate that the climate is changing in real-time. He advocates starting conversations about climate change and sharing stories of impacts through diverse voices and real-time depictions of extremes and resilience, in order to support environmental justice.

1. USING VISUALIZATION TO START
CLIMATE CONVERSATIONS
Zachary Labe
Climate Scientist at NOAA GFDL & Princeton University
zachary.labe@noaa.gov
IEEE Vis – 17 October 2022 – #Viz4Climate Workshop

2. RESEARCHER
Climate signal vs. weather noise
@ZLabe
COMMUNICATOR
RESEARCHER
Arctic climate change
STORYTELLER
Simple, bold data visualization
ZACHARY LABE
Climate Scientist at NOAA GFDL & Princeton University
zachary.labe@noaa.gov

3. The Arctic is warming more than 3 times
faster than the global average!

6. NOW
Start of
satellite-era

7. DATA VISUALIZATION
IS STORY-TELLING.
Arctic temperature anomalies from 1950 to 2021

8. THIS IS AN
OPPORTUNITY
TO COMMUNICATE.

10. 2016
Average

11. THE CLIMATE IS
CHANGING
IN REAL-TIME.
Considering a global view of
temperatures relative to
average – placing weather in
the context of climate

12. THIS IS AN
OPPORTUNITY
TO SHARE STORIES.

14. [International
Arctic
Research
Center
[IARC;
University
of
Alaska,
Fairbanks]

15. START A
CONVERSATION.

16. NASA Visualization of Global Carbon Dioxide
Helen-Nicole Kostis, Andrew J Christensen, Mark SubbaRao, Greg Shirah, Horace Mitchell
Scientific Visualization Studio, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

17. NASA Visualization of Global Carbon Dioxide
Helen-Nicole Kostis, Andrew J Christensen, Mark SubbaRao, Greg Shirah, Horace Mitchell
Scientific Visualization Studio, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

18. Sharing climate change and extreme events in real-time.
Supporting climate resilience and environmental justice.
Identifying climate impacts with data-driven visualizations.
Using a diversity of voices to communicate.
@ZLabe
Questions!
Zachary Labe | 17 October 2022 | zachary.labe@noaa.gov