by A striking new visualization of the climate researcher Zeke Hausfather unfolds like a flower in spring, and the colors move from blue to red. It may look beautiful, but what it shows is an alarming picture of a heating planet.
The graphic shows the increase in daily global temperatures between 1940 and the end of 2024 compared to the period before humans began to burn large amounts of fossil fuels on planets.
It paints a strong picture. When the data is mirking out, it becomes Redder and Redder when the global temperatures increase.
Good visualizations can make climate change “more viscice and understandable”, said Hausfather, who is climate research in stripe and research scientist at Berkeley Earth.
If you have the development of global temperatures in the past 85 years, “crystal has realized how quickly the planet has heated up in recent decades and how worrying was compared with all previous years in 2023 and 2024,” he told CNN.
Last year the hottest year was in the listed story and only broke a record set the year before. It was also the first calendar year that had violated 1.5 degrees Celsius about pre -industrial level, a critical climate threshold.
Scientists have difficulty explaining the extraordinary heat in recent years. While it was mainly driven by burning fossil fuels and the natural climate pattern El Niño, these factors alone do not complete the unusually fast rise in temperature.
However, what scientists have clear is that every fraction of a degree warms the world, the worse the effects on humans and ecosystems, including more frequent and heavy fires, storms and floods.
“Global warming has accelerated in recent years and is a great threat to our livelihood and the natural world if we do not take any measures to reduce emissions,” said Hausfather.
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