How much hotter is your hometown than when you were born?
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 3:47 am
According to Hannah Fairfield, the journal's strategy on climate is " to reveal as much as possible about the politics and science of climate change , and to show how these changes affect all of our lives." Thus, the personalized portrayal of the immediate and long-term effects of climate change is a particularly important angle.
“One of our biggest projects was called lawyer database We invited our readers to enter their hometown and the year they were born to reveal how many days of the year averaged 32°C or higher, how that has changed today, and how it will change in the future. The project was designed on a global scale — you can see results for cities in China, India, France, the UK. We wanted to show the shared experience of warming.”
Source: New York Times
Another central communication axis is that of visualization . “Personalization allows people to see how climate change directly affects them. But in order to tell the climate story, one of the most important things is to make it visible to people,” says Hannah Fairfield.
Last year, the newspaper published a project that brought both aspects together. The article, “ See How the World’s Most Polluted Air Compares With Your City ’s ,” uses augmented reality to show readers what air pollution looks like. The goal: to visualize pollution in the reader’s city on its worst day for air quality, and then compare it to pollution during the California wildfires in 2018 and to pollution in New Delhi during extreme pollution spikes in late 2019.
“One of our biggest projects was called lawyer database We invited our readers to enter their hometown and the year they were born to reveal how many days of the year averaged 32°C or higher, how that has changed today, and how it will change in the future. The project was designed on a global scale — you can see results for cities in China, India, France, the UK. We wanted to show the shared experience of warming.”
Source: New York Times
Another central communication axis is that of visualization . “Personalization allows people to see how climate change directly affects them. But in order to tell the climate story, one of the most important things is to make it visible to people,” says Hannah Fairfield.
Last year, the newspaper published a project that brought both aspects together. The article, “ See How the World’s Most Polluted Air Compares With Your City ’s ,” uses augmented reality to show readers what air pollution looks like. The goal: to visualize pollution in the reader’s city on its worst day for air quality, and then compare it to pollution during the California wildfires in 2018 and to pollution in New Delhi during extreme pollution spikes in late 2019.