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Warming Stripes spark climate conversations: from the ocean to the stratosphere

3 weeks ago | journals.ametsoc.org | Ed Hawkins |Richard Williams |Paul Young |Jeff Berardelli

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My new dark red climate stripe for 2024 shows it’s the hottest year yet

Jan 16, 2025 | twyg.co.za | Ed Hawkins

The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the period before widespread industralisation. More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single number. But are these simple numbers helpful for telling the story of all this data and what it means for people living today? Does my simple graphic help? I hope so.
My new dark red climate stripe for 2024 shows it's the hottest year yet

Jan 13, 2025 | businessgreen.com | Ed Hawkins

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My new dark red climate stripe for 2024 shows it’s the hottest year yet

Jan 10, 2025 | theconversation.com | Ed Hawkins

The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the period before widespread industralisation. More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single number. But, are these simple numbers helpful for telling the story of all this data and what it means for people living today? Does my simple graphic help? I hope so.
My new dark red climate stripe for 2024 shows it’s the hottest year yet

Jan 10, 2025 | tolerance.ca | Ed Hawkins

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Earth Is Heating Up at The Fastest Rate Ever Recorded, Evidence Suggests

Nov 20, 2024 | sciencealert.com | Ed Hawkins

In September 1933, American meteorologist Joseph Kincer asked a simple question: is the climate changing? So began the effort to understand the scope of humanity's interference with the climate. By examining trends in measured temperatures at many different locations around the world, Kincer concluded that the world was getting warmer, but did not suggest a reason.
Cop29: How fast is Earth warming?

Nov 20, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Ed Hawkins

By Ed Hawkins, Professor of Climate Science, University of Reading In September 1933, American meteorologist Joseph Kincer asked a simple question: is the climate changing? So began the effort to understand the scope of humanity’s interference with the climate.
Cop29: How fast is Earth warming?

Nov 20, 2024 | theconversation.com | Ed Hawkins

In September 1933, American meteorologist Joseph Kincer asked a simple question: is the climate changing? So began the effort to understand the scope of humanity’s interference with the climate. By examining trends in measured temperatures at many different locations around the world, Kincer concluded that the world was getting warmer, but did not suggest a reason.
Warming Stripes

May 14, 2024 | climatelabbook.substack.com | Ed Hawkins

The iconic ‘warming stripes’ - a set of simple graphics that represent observed changes in temperature across the globe using coloured stripes - have been updated to include data for 2023. It was globally the hottest year on record. By a large margin. New for 2023For the 2023 update to the graphics, we have done more than just add another stripe. There have been some subtle changes to the design of the graphics.
Non-normality of weather data

Nov 30, 2023 | climatelabbook.substack.com | Ed Hawkins

In 1887, John Venn used 4857 observations of atmospheric pressure taken at 9am every morning in Cambridge between 1865-1878 to explore whether the data was normally distributed. It was not. There is an asymmetry because low pressures are lower than the high pressures are high.