165 Years Of Global Warming Shown In A Spiral Image: Reveals The Severity Of Climate Change

A scientist named Ed Hawkins created a spiral GIF that showed the 165 years of global warming altering world's temperature every year. The image revealed the severity of climate change happening on the planet that taking its toll on the environment.

The Global Warming Illustration

According to Washington Post, the illustration showed the start of global warming in 1850. With a series of curve changes every second, it represents how Earth gets warmer every year, which began in the core of the 19^th century.

As the time goes by, evidently, the global warming is getting worse making the world hotter as seen in the circles. The loop moves frantically, showing the early years that have a cool temperature to the present era that has a feverish state.

Hottest Year In Record

Tech Times reported the hottest temperature in the tally was recorded in 2015, breaking the year it followed. As seen in the GIF, 2016 is shaping out of the line, implying this year is hotter than ever.

The researchers at NASA noted that since they documented the "hottest years" that occurred, 15 out of the 16 warmest years started in 2001. Clearly, global warming is getting worse every year.

Spiralling global temperatures from 1850-2016 (full animation) https://t.co/YETC5HkmTr pic.twitter.com/Ypci717AHq

— Ed Hawkins (@ed_hawkins) May 9, 2016

The Fight Against Global Warming

Hence, in the climate change forum in December last year, 195 countries around the world decided to unite to fight climate change. It all concerted to "limit" the global warming by less than 2 degree Celsius for the rest of the 21^st century, Tech Times reported.

However, the climatologists deemed that the said figures are not enough to fight the global warming. They are eyeing for more limitations that will go further up to 2.7 degrees to stop the severe effect of climate change to the environment.

The GIF To Give Awareness

"It was just designed to try and communicate in a different way," Ed Hawkins said about his diagram of global warming. He revealed the visual aid was originally designed by his fellow scientist named Jan Fuglestvedt from the University of Oslo, as per CSMonitor.

The illustration is to make people aware how severe global warming is today and expected to be worst in the coming years. "The pace of change is immediately obvious, especially over the past few decades," Ed Hawkins disclosed in his blog, Climate Lab Book.

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