Adding explanatory text to _infographics/climate/map-temperature-change.md

[willemfrishert]

Task of #14: Add English texts to the published infographics

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What does this PR do?

• bulk-translated the Czech text to English using DeepL for map-temperature-change.md
• Use Grammarly to proofread the texts.

Commented out links:

• Commented out link in text (using html comments) as these are (not yet) available in English:
  • Global temperature anomaly - https://faktaoklimatu.cz/infografiky/vyvoj-teplotni-anomalie
  • Charneyho zpráva - https://faktaoklimatu.cz/studie/1979-charneyho-zprava

Open Question:

Quoting vs paraphrasing "Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific Assessment (1979)"

The Czech took a line from an English study and translated it to Czech.

The original line from the study (Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific Assessment (1979)) reads:

When it is assumed that the CO, content of the atmosphere is doubled and statistical thermal equilibrium is achieved, the more realistic of the modeling efforts predict a global surface warming of between 2°C and 3.5°C, with greater increases at high latitudes.

Translation to Czech:

Už v roce 1979 shrnovala Charneyho zpráva výsledky tehdejších klimatických modelů a autoři konstatovali: „…pokud dojde ke zdvojnásobení koncentrace CO2 v atmosféře a dosažení termodynamické rovnováhy, dojde k oteplení o 2–3,5 °C, s vyššími nárůsty v severních zeměpisných šířkách.“

Two options come to mind:

1. We also paraphrase in English to keep alignment between Czech & English website:

Back in 1979, the Charney Report summarized the results of climate models at the time, and the authors concluded, "...if the concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere is doubled and thermodynamic equilibrium is reached, there will be a warming of 2-3.5 °C, with higher increases at northern latitudes.":

2. We quote the original line from the Charney Report (Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific Assessment (1979)):

Back in 1979, the Charney Report summarized the results of climate models at the time, and the authors concluded, "When it is assumed that the CO, content of the atmosphere is doubled and statistical thermal equilibrium is achieved, the more realistic of the modeling efforts predict a global surface warming of between 2°C and 3.5°C, with greater increases at high latitudes."

[tjarnikova]

This is more an editorial comment than a linguistic one, but I would vote for quoting the Charney report directly here (option 2 of Willem's suggestions). At least in anglophone contexts, the quotation marks suggest no paraphrasing - a direct quote. So it would read:

Back in 1979, the Charney Report summarized the results of climate models at the time, and the authors concluded:
"When it is assumed that the CO, content of the atmosphere is doubled and statistical thermal equilibrium is achieved, the more realistic of the modeling efforts predict a global surface warming of between 2°C and 3.5°C, with greater increases at high latitudes."

If we wanted to paraphrase, I can come up with something, but I think this way is better.

[willemfrishert]

Ok, I changed it to quoting the Charney report.

Note that I fixed the CO, (incorrectly copied and pasted here) to use the proper subscript: CO<sub>2</sub>.

[mukrop]

In general, I would vote more for paraphrasing than direct quote. Reasoning: The direct quote is more complicated to understand (uses more sophisticated language). To me, the more important point is to get the message across (the original source is linked anyway for those interested).

But it's not crucial, I believe, we can keep it as is now.

[mukrop]

I did just a small proofreading, otherwise good to go!