IPCC Report Haiku

Source: IPCC AR5 Fig. 13.27.

Is the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s fifth report just too long and technical? The 23-page executive summary too forbidding? Maybe you just need some beautiful art to blunt the harsh blows of the report?

Well fear no more! Greg Johnson created this gorgeous set of illustrated haikus to sum it up for you. The whole series is available for personal or educational nonprofit use.

Ice Storm Images

Visiting friends and family in Vermont earlier this week, I completely underestimated the ice storm that was about to hit. After the worst was over I was able to cozy up to a woodstove during the two-day power outage, and had some adventures sliding down a sloped road and bruising my legs up pretty impressively. Fortunately I made it home for Christmas and the power lines were at least temporarily repaired.

I'm a huge fan of The Boston Globe's weekly segment The Big Picture. This week had many images of the aftermath of the ice storm that knocked out power for tens of thousands in my adopted state of Vermont, and hundreds of thousands across eastern U.S. and Canada.

Click images to link through:

(Bob Strong/Reuters)

(Aaron Vincent Elkaim/AP Photo/The Canadian Press)

I also loved this shot of ducks in Boise:

(Kyle Green/AP/The Idaho Statesman)

Interactive Real-Time Wind Map of the Earth

A real-time visualization of Earth's weather conditions, generated by supercomputers. Updated every three hours: