These tickers show the unrelenting rise in global temperatures and carbon dioxide.
It’s getting hot in here. NASA/Getty Images |
It’s possible now to actually see the concentration of greenhouse gases and the energy they trap ticking ominously upward in real time.
Brian Kahn at Earther highlighted a clock that shows the rising global warming index:
Global Warming Index |
The Current GWI, steadily ticking upward, represents the amount that burning fossil fuels and other human endeavors have driven up the planet’s temperature, while accounting for natural variations in the climate to isolate humanity’s role. You can dig into all the details on how they made it here.
If you want to step further into the rising tide, there’s another, more frenetic ticker from the University of Oxford showing the rise in greenhouse gases, counting up toward humanity’ trillionth metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions:
Trillionth Tonne |
Bloomberg |
Kevin Pluck |
Tick-tock.
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