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Summer Temperatures 9/25

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How was this past summer compared to previous years? James Hansen, a NASA scientist and Columbia University professor, has dug into the past 64 years of global temperatures and this is what he found:

In case you need to open it to better view it, here is the link. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/03/learning/08WGOITGraphLN.html


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Question 3
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Why did the author add that "shadow" graph?

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What's going on in this graph? (i.e. what would be an accurate conclusion that can be supported by this graph)
To answer this question use the CER framework

Question 5
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Write a >140 character Tweet that could accompany the sharing of the of the map/image.
This means, you would write a short sentence or two that describes one surprising thing you noticed from the map and you accompany it with one or two relevant hashtags.

What is being shown in the y-axis?
Extremely cold temperatures
Frequency (i.e. times the event happened within a given range)
The baseline period
The range, in years
Look at the "shadow" graph, what does it represent?
The ideal graph
The baseline graph
The time when we started worrying about climate
Times when it was really cold