Climate change has never been easier to see.
A winding coil of global temperatures from 1880 to 2021 is a maelstrom of menace.
The animation is based on data from NASA and was designed by climate scientist Ed Hawkins, who is known for putting together the original climate stripes.
The climate spiral of the GISTEMP. NASA has a scientific visualization studio.
The University of Reading in the United Kingdom has a researcher interested in organizing climate data in ways that are easy to understand and remember.
His first climate spiral went online. The way the animation represented the climate crisis was terrifying. The opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics used it.
After just five years, the spiral is bigger than ever.
A revolving line of global temperature surface data is recorded each month on this circular calendar.
The line of data creates a shape as the years go by. The line starts to spread out in the latenineteenth century, creating more of a tornado.
The belt is moving fast by the turn of the century. It crosses the yellow boundary several times between 2016 and 2021.
In July of 2021, the Northern Hemisphere experienced the hottest month on record.
The recording will have company soon enough. The last nine years have been among the hottest on record. Not even a global epidemic seems to slow us down.
The whirlpool of data is ready to swallow the future.
There is a view of the climate spiral. NASA has a scientific visualization studio.
The spiral can be found at NASA.
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