a song of our warming planet: using music to communicate critical concepts in climate science
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A SONG OF OUR
WARMING PLANET
Using music to communicate critical concepts in climate science
Sco! St. George Daniel Crawford
Todd Reubold
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting | Connecting Geoscience with the Arts | December 15, 2014
GEOG1403GARDENBIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE
GLOBAL
CLIMATECHANGE
1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 200056
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Source: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Global temperature records are commonly represented as time series.
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If you really want to communicate with someone, it’s best not to show a graph, but to express something artistically.
“ ”Commander Chris Hadfield
November 12, 2014
Daniel Crawford University of Minnesota
However, sometimes converting a simple graph into some different form of information can deliver the message far be!er, and more effectively, than dots on a page.
“ ”Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy
July 18, 2013
GEOG1403GARDENBIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE
GLOBAL
Parts of the planet have warmed more rapidly than others since the 1880s.
°CSource: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
cello
viola
violin II
violin I
Planetary Bands, Warming World Daniel Crawford
1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 200056
56.5
57
57.5
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58.5
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Source: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Any geophysical time series can be expressed as music.
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How could anything be more scientific and mathematical than music?
“ ”Commander Chris Hadfield
November 12, 2014
