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Monika Frątczak, Postdoctoral Researcher, Digital Technologies, Communication and Artificial Intelligence, Manchester Metropolitan University

INSANE: When climate data is transformed into visuals some people and places get overlooked | Vintage Vibes

Warming stripes for Poland (1901-2021). Ed Hawkins/University of Reading, CC BY

When a climate disaster happens, people thousands of miles away may encounter it through numbers: how many people died, how many were displaced, how many homes were destroyed and how much infrastructure was damaged. But for the people living through it, the disaster is not a dataset. It is a home, a family, a livelihood and a place.

Billions of people around the world live in places and situations that are highly vulnerable to climate change, such as parts of Africa, Asia and small Pacific islands.

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