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1/ Hi I'm Brian Jacobs, @btjakes, Senior Graphics Editor in Nat Geo's maps & graphics department. Today I published an interactive where you can see what climate change will feel like around you and I'll be explaining the process behind it. https://on.natgeo.com/2K9ZexL
2/ I'm based at home these days in Washington, DC and I use code, design, and visualization to make interactive graphics. For this project I teamed up with @alejandrabee_ @EveConant (text), @rileydchampine @jasontreat (cartography & data), and Kaya Berne (research).
3/ We wanted to express what the world might look like in 50 years using worst-case scenario climate models. The interactive in the first tweet above is a pessimistic take on climate change, showing an outcome in which we take little action to reduce it. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/04/editor-why-we-explored-two-starkly-different-futures-for-earth-in-fifty-years/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=twitter::cmp=editorial::add=tw20200414ngm-earthdayeditorletter::rid=
4/ You can see your location's climate analog, or the place currently on the planet that represents what your climate will feel like in 50 years. Washington, DC (where I live) will feel more like Clarksdale, Mississippi in 2070.
5/ The interactive tries to guess your current location, but if you want to learn about somewhere else, you can search for it.
