Climate change is a challenging issue on multiple levels - it's challenging for scientists to understand all of the complexities of a changing climate, it's difficult to know how to optimally communicate to the public about climate change, and of course we face an enormous challenge in figuring out
Something squirrelly about this chart.
I live in Western Australia where it shows grey areas bigger than some countries. The grey colours are presumably missing data, except that smack in the middle of those is the capital of Western Australia, Perth and several other populations centers.
Blame the author for not putting a caption.
Here’s the paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2411258121
Gray areas are not missing data, they’re areas where weather was becoming less extreme rather than more.