Welcome back everybody, this is Leo.
Not that many people might have noticed, but I feel that Earth Nullschool was affected by the growing flat Earth movement.
For those who haven't heard of this website, it's an interactive world map.
The main features include turning on wind
temperature
ocean currents
and even air pollution.
They update the temperature information every three hours, and the ocean currents every five days.
Without a doubt it's unique and reliable.
Out of all the map models, flat earthers like us prefer to use the Azimuthal Equidistant.
When Eric Dubay showed this website two years ago,
I've been taking occasional screenshots of the world temperature ever since.
The only problem is that this model is a South Pole projection of the AE map
Just four months ago, it was completely different.
Between March 1st and March 6th the AE projection went from this
to this
Kind of weird considering Nullschool was created around December 2013.
Out of all that time, they suddenly decided to change the map's look for no reason.
The average person who uses the site wouldn't notice the difference.
But how common exactly is this South Pole version?
If you look up the term "azimuthal equidistant" on Google, you get a very low amount of search results.
But here, we mostly see the correct North Pole projection, which includes the UN's emblem.
Same goes with Wikipedia.
It means that Nullschool purposely replaced the regular map with the uncommon South Pole variant.
So why did they do it?
They probably received complaints from either regular people, or someone more influential (the NOAA).
Especially after more truth-oriented pictures like this one started popping up on the internet.
The globe model fails to explain why the equator isn't diagonal, since earth is supposed to be tilted...
In reality, 23.4 degrees applies the seasons changing with the sun's movement.
At least we can somewhat recreate the old projection by simply dragging the map this way.
It's undeniable that winds and temperature look more natural on this model, compared to the fake ball.
In fact, why is this even a globe?
If you guys at Nullschool want to change something,
how about you shape the Earth into the oblate spheroid it's supposed to be?
Oh, no?
I guess there shouldn't be any reason for you to change the projection after all...
