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by gone35 4216 days ago
(Not the parent but) If I may,

The key point is that communication is expensive[1]. And not just because bandwidth is physically expensive, or the opportunity costs of waiting about, or the usability nightmares that inevitably ensue; but also because decoding itself is mentally taxing. And every panache adds up to it. So it better be worth to the recipient.

So when you double-down like you did, Flash-era intros and all; and it turns out all there is to it is a sparse bunch of unnavigable, decontextualized[2], tweet-sized digests of a policymakers' digest; and on top you can't even turn the damn globe on your own to explore the simulation results yourself (arguably the sole reason to be using WebGL at all!); then... well, I hope you see why your site would be so exasperating.

[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pd...

[2] Pro tip: leaving uncertainty terms to the 'for climate nerds' section is borderline unethical.