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Meteorologists Talk Climate on International #ShowYourStripes Day


Today's the 6th annual international #ShowYourStripes day, a campaign where meteorologists and climatologists throughout the world come together to spread awareness of human induced climate change and the increasing impacts from it that are being felt globally.

The communication centers around the simple bar code like climate stripes graphic visualization created by professor Ed Hawkins of Reading University in the UK.

Here's how the temp has changed in CT since 1895.




Same info, viewed a different way:


Please share and talk about this. The more voices that speak up, the better the odds are that society will do more to address climate change. #ShowYourStripes


And here are the global views:





Please share and talk about this. The more voices that speak up, the better the odds are that society will do more to address climate change. #ShowYourStripes