Diego Ramos Aguilera

El mapa de calor de Madrid muestra claramente que, exceptuando el Retiro (que está cerrado), el resto de la ciudad es un puto infierno por falta de árboles.
Ala, a seguir votando a Almeida.

In the face of the #heatwave on the Iberian Peninsula, I have updated the map of drinking water sources based on data from @openstreetmap.bsky.social. #rstats #dataviz

This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.

Esta es la imagen actual, de momento llevamos 114 días con anomalías positivas y 25 días extremos en España en 2025. Después del episodio de altas temperaturas veremos cómo quedará. 🥵

#dataviz #meteo

What is the climate probability of a summer day with a maximum temperature of more than 25ºC? You can see it throughout the year. Central Europe reaches at most 50%, while the south, Spain, Portugal, and Italy, for example, achieve 100% on many days.

#climate #meteo #dataviz

Thanks to everybody who chimed in!

I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.

So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

Introducing the "tree ring plot": a new way to visualize global surface temperatures. Each ring is a year, and each colored cell represents a day in global average temperatures (compared to a 1850-1900 preindustrial baseline).

Bar graph with blue bars showing annual global increase of CO2. 2024 had the highest growth of any year back to 1959.

You might be thinking, "Tom, 3.75 ppm means nothing to me. What does that actually mean?" Here's some context:

A growth of CO2 of 3.75ppm from January 2024 to December 2024 was the largest annual increase on record and 25% larger than the previous record set in 2015. 2/7

Classifying human development

A general classification of human development from natural areas right up to urban cores

While linear and general in nature it still informs urban geography, planning, and spatial planning

An illustration showing the impact of parking requirements on land use. From left to right, the image depicts a gradient of increasing parking mandates: 'No Parking Required' allows for dense, walkable development; '1 Space per 500 Square Feet' introduces some parking; '1 Space per 250 Square Feet' adds more parking lots; and '1 Space per 100 Square Feet' results in sprawling, car-centric infrastructure with large parking lots dominating the landscape. The logo 'PRN' and 'PARKING REFORM NETWORK' are visible at the bottom.

“The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar, in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle, is actually the right to destroy the city.”

- Lewis Mumford

Stand up for science flyer, happening on March 7th in DC & nationwide with more information at www.standupforscience2025.org

WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?

🌡 New on @ourworldindata.org:

We added global temperature anomaly charts *coloured by El Nino / La Nina periods*.

Today's "cool" years are warmer than "warm" years of the past.

[New article and charts by my colleague Veronika Samborska and I: ourworldindata.org/global-tempe... ]

i declare myself a fan of public libraries, and all they represent 🤗

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

🚨 #NOAA is essential for weather forecasting, climate research, and public safety.

AGU stands with the scientific community in urging Congress to protect and strengthen NOAA, not dismantle it.

Our economy, environment, and safety depend on it.

This is a cartogram map of the United States depicting land use by different categories. The map distorts state shapes to represent proportional land usage. Key land use types include cow pasture/range (covering much of the central U.S.), private and federal timberland in the Pacific Northwest, corporate timberland in the Southeast, and urban housing/commercial areas in the Northeast. Other categories include agriculture (livestock feed, wheat exports, ethanol/biodiesel, cotton), protected lands (national parks, federal wilderness, state parks), and infrastructure (railroads, airports, highways). Additional specialized land uses include wildfires, golf courses, Christmas tree farms, and maple syrup production.

I think about this map a lot.

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

Facepalm, AI...

Lets put this in "business" terms.

If you have an arm of your firms that costs $50k to operate, but it produces $500k in profits, and you cut it, you don't save $50k, you lose $450k.

By cutting billions, they have the potential to reduce future growth by the trillions.

Images of Dutch cycling infrastructure

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social

Now is the time for a genuinely non-evil, open-source, privacy-focused ecosystem -- operating system, email and other basic services, mobile OS, phone -- that would allow consumers to entirely defect from the enshittifying exploitation systems controlled by today's increasingly fascist tech bros.

Ebbaba Hameida, periodista saharaui en España: «Sentí una culpa abrumadora por vivir en el país que traicionó a mi gente» – Cadena SER noteolvidesdelsaharaoccidental.org/ebbaba-hamei...

A driver in a car having to press a “beg button“ to change the lights, instead of pedestrians or people on bikes, illustrating the correct prioritization.

Time for another reminder — our values & priorities are revealed in countless small but key details in our city design, deliberate decisions that have prioritized cars over people for decades.

It will take equally deliberate decisions to change.

HT #Dutch cartoon by Verwey, 1980

How did the EU's electricity mix change in the last year?

☀️ Big growth in solar
☢️ 🌊 Rebound in nuclear & hydro
💨 Not so much growth in wind
🏭 Large drop in fossil fuels (both coal and gas)
🔌 Demand up

From @ember-energy.org's new European Electricity Review: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

vaya piruetas ha dado la sra. ministra para evitar hacer autocrítica… muy decepcionante #asínosva

The White House climate page is now gone. Climate change is not. www.whitehouse.gov/climate

In the paper, I note that its probably a bit of both. Some scenarios – like RCP8.5 – were never intended to represent median "business as usual" outcomes but were misinterpreted by much of the community as such.

welcome to all twitter folks!

the sky is bluer on this side :)

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY