I wanted to share the xkcd climate change cartoon “Earth Temperature Timeline” on social media, but I had two problems: (1) it’s a visually very tall comic that does not lend itself to viewing in one screen; and (2) most of the big sites punish external links so just pointing to the source would narrow the reach.
So, taking advantage of xkcd’s generous license, I downloaded and cut up the cartoon into pieces. Sharing my result here.
They are here and the imagemagick commands I ran actually divided them relatively cleanly (e.g., no blocks of text sprawling two images, that I see). Those commands are below.
Commands I used:
magick input.png -resize 1080x +repage -crop 1080x1350 -quality 95 +repage slide_%02d.pngmagick slide_15.png slide_16.png -append slide15_combined_last.pngI did use an LLM to help tune the first command a bit.
My memory was that this cartoon generated a fair amount of discourse, but I do think it makes a striking point in isolation about the extent of the climate problem. Anyway – let’s move to renewables and more distributed electrical generation.