A new and impressive visualization Created by climate scientist Zeke Hausfather unfolds like a flower blooming in spring, with colors ranging from blue to red. It may seem beautiful, but what reveals is an alarming picture of an planet in warming .
The chart shows the increase in daily global temperatures between 1940 and the end of 2024, compared to the period prior to the massive use of fossil fuels by humans.
It presents a striking portrait. As data expands, it becomes increasingly red, reflecting the intensification of global warming.
Good views can make changes climate “more visceral and understandable,” said Hausfather, a climate research leader at Berkeley Earth Researcher and Research Scientist.
Representing the evolution of global temperatures in the last 85 years makes “absolutely clear how quickly the planet has warmed in recent decades and how worryingly hot were 2023 and 2024 compared to any previous year,” he told the CNN .
GLOBAL Temperatures have increded by Around 1.3c Over the Past 85 Years, with Most of this in the Past Few Decades. I’ve put together a New View of Daily Global Temperatures (Inspired by Ed Hawkins Climate) That Shows This dramatic Increase: pic.twitter.com/o2n0ktv24c
– Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath) March 5, 2025
Last year was the hottest ever registered, breaking a record established the previous year. It was also the first calendar year to exceed 1.5 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a critical climate threshold.
Scientists have faced difficulties to fully explain the extraordinary heat of recent years. Although this increase is driven mainly by the burning of fossil fuels and the natural El Niño phenomenon, these factors alone do not completely explain the rapid elevation of temperatures.
What is clear to scientists, however, is that each fraction of degree that the world warms aggravates the impacts on humans and ecosystems, including fires, storms and more frequent and severe floods.
“Global warming has accelerated in recent years and represents a great threat to our way of life and the natural world if we do not take action to reduce emissions,” Hausfather said.
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This content was originally published in animated chart makes climate change “visceral and understandable” on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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