Chris D'Angelo - Sobering GIF Shows Earth’s Climate Spiraling Toward The Brink
If a picture is worth
a thousand words, this 16-second animation that a European scientist developed
is a lengthy and well-sourced climate history book. Ed Hawkins, a climate
scientist at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, posted
to Twitter on Monday a GIF depicting global temperatures steadily
spiraling upward over the past 166 years.
The colorful infographic
is simple, gripping and alarming. As the planet warms, the line corkscrews
outward, inching closer to the 1.5 degree Celsius aspirational warming limit
agreed to during the historic
climate change agreement in Paris last December. See gif: