Right though April, I feel as if I have been bombarded with data on social media that show clearly the impact the climate crisis is already having.
The patterns are pretty obvious. Firstly, there's the pattern of warming in surface temperatures since the middle of the nineteenth century (based on data from quite a number of reputable scientific sources, note):
Then there are @ed_hawkins et al's newly updated climate stripes, based on various places around the globe. This is the picture for Beijing, for example:
And, closer to home and so just - if not more - worrying, is this one for the North Atlantic:
Finally, here is the juxtaposition of the climate stripes with key dates in the battle to get countries to take climate change seriously:
The problems certainly aren't going away, even if our collective inaction remains startling. Greenhouse emissions actually rose last year, contributing to a related rise in concentrations of the main greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide).
We are rapidly running out of time. Just look at the data!
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