Tim Schütz VTP Materials

I would like to continue last year’s engagement with visualization in Earth System sciences and other disciplines. I recently attended an interdisciplinary symposium on “the Anthropocene”.” Climate scientists from the Anthropocene Working Group showed a graphic they produced, and which was perceived as effective and affective by many panelists (used in Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene, 2018). The scientists told me that they drew it themselves, in a group of nine. They also called it a “cartoon” -- to indicate that it is a simplified graph intended to reach a lay audience. The image could be a prompt for us to think again about complexity -- or when how “simple” might become too simple?