HoPE Climate Wall Documentation

Meta message area

This section will cover material about the “meta message area”, which are the 27 screens (9 screens x 3 screens, or 36 ft x ~6.8ft) above the 9 x 1 interactive screens

Meta messages

Not to be written verbatim, but these are the overall “messages” that visuals should be built from

• Earth’s climate is a complex system that results from interactions between…
  • Atmosphere
  • Ocean
  • Ice
  • Land
  • Biosphere
• Earth’s climate is always changing but the current, rapid warming is the result of human activity.
• Release of greenhouse gases—mostly carbon dioxide from burning of fossils fuels—is driving climate change.
• The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is now higher than at any time in at least the last 800,000 years… and possibly in the last 3 million years.
• Scientists largely agree that Earth’s climate is changing because of human activity.

Meta message content and visualizations

Some explorations on content we can put on the meta section

1. 6 scene sequence (6/13/2018) - updated text, text layout, updated timing, added reference text, increased contrast
2. 6 scene sequence (6/8/2018)
   1. Earth’s limb
   2. CO2 curve
   3. Ice sheets
   4. Hurricanes
   5. Lights at night
   6. Amazon forest
3. Scientists predict that warmer oceans will lead to stronger hurricanes. (Shay, 9/26/2017)
4. Earth’s atmosphere is fragile and finite. (9/26/2017)
5. One-quarter of greenhouse gas emissions come from electricity generation. (9/26/2017)
   1. 1. Alternate: On a sphere
6. The release of carbon dioxidefrom burning fossils fuelsis driving climate change (9/26/2017)
   1. Alternate: CO2 concentration
7. Greenland ice melt graph + Empire State Building + Beach house (Shay, 8/31/2017)
8. Temperature graph (8/1/2017)
9. CO₂ “hocky-stick” graph (7/17/2017)
10. Glacier before and after (7/17/2017)
11. CO₂ emissions visualization (9/14/2017) - CO₂ particle visualization
    1. Alternate: Earth background (5/25/2017)
    2. Alternate: Black background (5/25/2017)
    3. Alternate: CO₂ emissions comparison (5/25/2017)
12. Climate event / Hurricane Sandy (5/25/2017) - An example of a climate event “take-over”
13. Earth’s atmosphere imagery - used in the original presentation and model