Anthropogenic activities are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposur
Anthropogenic activities are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposur
Show me a truncated graph and my inner statistician goes:
eugh
This graph is from wikipedia. Feel free to fix it.
Isn’t this the opposite of truncated? They drill down each year’s cycle and show like 80 years of cycles.
The y axis doesn’t start at 0, making it look like the change has been a lot more drastic than it actually was (even though it’s still very bad). I think that’s what they’re referring to
I see this sentiment quite often, is it field-specific? Cause in physics and chemistry, starting at 0 is really not required…
In this case, the zero value is really not relevant (since no-one would ever have it anyway). It would just hide the signifcant drift over time. A good scaling here would be based on some clinically relevant interval I guess.