Visualization I

Summary

Our table on the right displays the yearly temperatures, the CO2 emissions have seen, and the temperature in that year. This would help us understand and answer our question of whether emissions correlate with temperature.

The table can be sorted by the year, the volume of emission, or temperature change. Our data consists of the years 1998-2012. 2012, the most recent year, has the highest change in temperature with the least amount of total emissions. 2009, the year with the second least change in temperature is also the year with the 3rd least total emissions of CO2.

This helps us in answering our first question – if there is a correlation between rising average temperature and CO2 emissions. The linear regression is 0.1984574, so there doesn’t seem like there’s much of a correlation between the temperature change and total CO2 emissions seen per year, as the data from the table suggests. To answer the second question, our hottest year is not the year with the most CO2 emissions.