Global warming is one of the world’s greatest problems. As more and more people are concerned about global warming, more websites and books are created to provide people with global warming information, figures, charts, facts and graphs. With the busy life of people nowadays, people do not have the luxury time to read long and confusing texts or facts, and more publishers are opting for graphs or pictures for their media. Global warming graphs are the better way to present facts in the form of chronological comparison for people to see and read, whilst scrutinizing them in detail.
However, all these global warming graphs and statistics are not created equally, some are made from doubtful or unclear statistics while some others are made carelessly or poorly than the rest. Generally, these global warming graphs and statistics are categorized into two variations which are short term global warming graphs and long term global warming graphs. The short term ones usually states data and information that are recently occurring and predictions in the coming few decades. As for long term trends, they show the temperature and other weather data for long year span, could be from prehistoric times or 1000 years ago.
One particular example of the short term climate change data category is The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the international forum that analyzes and collects climate data. They have published many series of their data online in graph forms, e.g. increasing density of the greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere to short term global average temperature changes. If you want to look and do some thorough observation about global warming since the beginning of the humankind, the Palaeoclimate Data and The Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis are worthwhile to examine. Mankind should start acting now, by changing the ways of living and reduce the reliance on fossil fuels for energy.