Eric Roston and Blacki Migliozzi of Bloomberg have put together an
elegant visualization of the evidence that points towards human causes of climate change. They framed it perfectly, noting that while skeptics claim natural forcing in global climate change, the vast majority of data show otherwise. The only way it could have been better is if they had called them climate deniers instead of skeptics.
By scrolling down the page, viewers are shown various graphs of the natural forces (changes in the Earth's orbit, changes in the sun's temperature, etc.) and then human-driven forcings. At the end they're all combined, and it's clear that rising greenhouse emissions are the input that most closely tracks with the rising temperatures.
This piece is getting shared pretty widely. In fact, there have been so many tweets that denier gadfly Tom Nelson asks if it's "well-financed astroturfing" because of the "long list of people who tweeted the exact same AGW [anthropological global warming] propaganda."
Had Tom not been so keen on concocting a conspiracy, he might have noticed that the tweets are all the same because that's the default text when you hit the Tweet button from the article.
Unlike the interactive, the tweet actually refers to Tom and his ilk as deniers. Perfect!
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