Climate stripes need new colour as world warms. The stripes represent billions of pieces of scientific data, collected over more than a century, in a single image.
by Wagamaga
Climate stripes need new colour as world warms. The stripes represent billions of pieces of scientific data, collected over more than a century, in a single image.
by Wagamaga
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Global temperatures were so hot in 2023 that the latest climate stripes image needs a new colour to show it, its creator has said.
The stripes show the change in average annual global temperatures since 1850, with red indicating hotter years and blue cooler ones against the average of the period 1971-2000.
Prof Ed Hawkins, from the University of Reading, has published the first updated image for the globe using the latest interim data for 2023 and said the darkest red from the current scale will not tell the full story.
“2023 was off the end of the scale,” he said.