Jonathan F. Donges

Picture a giant spiderweb stretched across thousands of points on Earth's surface. Each strand connects two places where air temperatures move in sync: if one node warms, so does the other. You can build this web from data for any given year, then compare how it looked across different years.

The same orchestra sounds different when two different conductors stand at the podium. One swings the baton widely, and the whole hall hears his accents; the other barely nods, and only individual instruments respond.