Editing Minimalism (section)

=== Science communication ===
[[File:1850- Warming stripes - global average surface temperature.svg |thumb|A [[warming stripes]] timeline graphic portraying [[global warming]]<ref>Data source: {{cite web |title=Met Office Climate Dashboard / Global temperature / Global surface temperatures / (scroll down to) Berkeley Earth |url=https://climate.metoffice.cloud/temperature.html |publisher=Met Office (U.K.) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117053030/https://climate.metoffice.cloud/temperature.html |archive-date=17 January 2024 |date=January 2024 |url-status=live}} Raw data has been shifted downward to make use of all shades of blue and red; global warming drove temperatures off the red scale in earlier versions.</ref> in the industrial era, with blues indicating cooler years and reds indicating warmer years. Warming stripes graphics are deliberately devoid of scientific or technical indicia, for ease of understanding by non-scientists.<ref name=Gizmodo_20190617/>]]
To portray [[global warming]] to non-scientists, British climate scientist [[Ed Hawkins (climatologist)|Ed Hawkins]] developed [[warming stripes]] graphics in 2018 that are deliberately devoid of scientific or technical indicia, for ease of understanding by non-scientists.<ref name=Gizmodo_20190617>{{cite news|last=Kahn|first=Brian|author-link=Brian Kahn|title=This Striking Climate Change Visualization Is Now Customizable for Any Place on Earth|url=https://earther.gizmodo.com/this-striking-climate-change-visualization-is-now-custo-1835581866|work=[[Gizmodo]]|date=June 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190626030105/https://earther.gizmodo.com/this-striking-climate-change-visualization-is-now-custo-1835581866|archive-date=June 26, 2019|url-status=dead|access-date=July 10, 2019}}</ref> Hawkins explained that "our visual system will do the interpretation of the stripes without us even thinking about it".<ref name=ScienceAlert_20180525>{{cite news |title=This Has Got to Be One of The Most Beautiful And Powerful Climate Change Visuals We've Ever Seen |url=https://www.sciencealert.com/this-has-got-to-be-one-of-the-most-beautiful-and-powerful-climate-change-visuals-we-ve-ever-seen |work=Science Alert |date=May 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628042115/https://www.sciencealert.com/this-has-got-to-be-one-of-the-most-beautiful-and-powerful-climate-change-visuals-we-ve-ever-seen |archive-date=June 28, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Warming stripe graphics resemble [[color field]] paintings, stripping out all distractions and using only color to convey meaning.<ref name=Gizmodo_20180525/> Color field pioneer artist [[Barnett Newman]] said he was "creating images whose reality is self-evident", an ethos that Hawkins is said to have applied to the problem of climate change and leading one commentator to remark that the graphics are "fit for the [[Museum of Modern Art]] or the [[J. Paul Getty Museum|Getty]]."<ref name=Gizmodo_20180525>{{cite news |last=Kahn|first=Brian|author-link=Brian Kahn|title=This Climate Visualization Belongs in a Damn Museum|url=https://earther.gizmodo.com/this-climate-visualization-belongs-in-a-damn-museum-1826307536|work=[[Gizmodo]]|date=May 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619235512/https://earther.gizmodo.com/this-climate-visualization-belongs-in-a-damn-museum-1826307536|archive-date=June 19, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

A [[tempestry]]—a [[portmanteau]] of "temperature" and "tapestry"—is a tapestry using stripes of specific colors of yarn to represent respective temperature ranges.<ref name=FastCompany_20190111/> The tapestries visually represent global warming occurring at given locations.<ref name=FastCompany_20190111>{{cite magazine |last1=Schwab |first1=Katharine |title=Crafting takes a dark turn in the age of climate crisis |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90290800/crafting-take-a-dark-turn-in-the-age-of-climate-crisis |magazine=Fast Company |date=2019-01-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111170955/https://www.fastcompany.com/90290800/crafting-take-a-dark-turn-in-the-age-of-climate-crisis |archive-date=11 January 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>