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Is this from one of the IPCC updates? Good visualization.
It's from a paper which got used as part of generating one of the IPCC updates
Forgive me for asking, but what about this makes it a good visualisation?
Maybe I just don't know how to read it, but this looks completely meaningless to me.
Several elements strike me.
It lays out options in a way that described the fork we are at. Asking the implicit question, are we going to turn left, go straight, or go right as I'd we are driving up a hill.
It also shows the shallow bumps in the road we have experienced and allows you to compare where we are going and how fast the hill has started climbing.
Now what is not great is the tags as it does not do great at explaining how the different scenario are derived and probability. That is pretty hard to do in a single infographic though.