Description

In this section, we want to analyze the geographical distribution of the searchers in China and the United States, because both of these two countries have vast geopolitical, the natural environment varies widely among different regions of the countries. Therefore, it is meaningful to analyze the search degree of climate change by region. It can tell us which areas are more concerned about climate change, which often means that these areas are more affected by climate change, or the regional events on climate change were taken place in this areas during this time. And we can also make a comparison between China and American to see if there is some geographical factors which will influence the searching degree of climate change.

Through this chart we find that both in China and the United States, coastal areas and economically developed areas have a high searching degree in climate change. In both countries, the regions with the highest degree of search are administrative capitals, indicating that climate change search is likely to be affected by political or policy implications.

Protocol

Data source: Baidu index, Google trends

Get into the online digital methods and input the keywords “Climate Change”, “Global Warming”, export the geographical distribution data from 2015 to 2016 in CSV format. In Baidu index we can not download the original data, so we just collect the data manually.

Use Carto/Illustrator to visualize the data. We have four map to present, and we decide to put them all in a same screen in order to compare the data between China and the United States, and between climate change and global warming.

Data

Data source: Baidu, Google

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This map is a supplemental version of the map, which can show the different search degree between the regions of China and the United States for “climate change” and “global warming”. Through this chart, we can clearly observe the search tendencies in some areas. The orange line indicates that the region searches for “global warming” more than “climate change”, while the blue line is the opposite.