In the information aesthetics website, they were commenting on the movie, An Inconvenient truth. They were critiquing how the graph that was primarily used to point out that the world is getting warmer, was in fact manipulated to give those alarming facts that the world is in deep climatic troubles. THE WORLD IS TOO WARM! Clearly, Gore hasn’t been to Chicago…. Geesh!! Anyways, unfortunately this website is talking about another article which is boring and less interesting. No just kidding…sorta…The article does say a couple of good points (I’m quoting infosthetics.com’s recap), “The article calims that you can’t tell whether warmer temperatures precede or follow the rises in levels of carbon dioxide and that the scale along the vertical “y” axis is not clearly lableled”(infosthetics.com). At the end of this review, infosthetics leaves you with, “Rarely has an example of design been subjected to such intense scrutiny at every level from so many sources” (infosthetics.com). OK so the design of the graph is hard to follow and yes it COULD have been misleading to prove a point. I still like the cool colors and its composition even though for documentary purposes it was not very well put together and made it hard to understand. However…… Does it really take a graph to try to convience the human race that the world is going down the toilet? We are cutting down rainforests at crazy rates, you really can’t deny the facts the glaciers are melting, and new car models are being built every year (who is going to the auto show?). These are just a few things occuring in planet earth. Who cares about the graph, even if the world isn’t as in danger as Gore said it was, do we really have to wait until it is?

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/02/an_inconvenient_change_climate_change_graph_critique.html#more

I leave you with a Native American proverb “We do no inherent this land from our ancestors but we borrow it from our children.”