Xkcd Takes on Global Warming

My friend Randall Munroe is a wonder. He is more than just ridiculously smart; he knows how to access all that wonderful knowledge stored in his brain, combine various pieces of it, and then present it in innovative ways that somehow make complex issues easy to understand, and even fun. In a recent issue of his web comic Xkcd he tackles global warming, and literally turns it sideways. Instead of plotting temperature vertically and time on the horizontal axis as is usually done, he makes time ver...