2023-06-21 20:46:14
Visualization of global warming
Why the world-famous white cliffs of Dover were colorfully illuminated
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The “Warming Stripes” lit up the chalk cliffs in Dover on Tuesday.
© Quelle: Ed Hawkins/Twitter
In 2018, scientist Ed Hawkins’ Warming Stripes went viral for the first time – they illustrate global warming over the past few decades. Now they shone on the white chalk cliffs of Dover.
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The famous white chalk cliffs of Dover lit up in different colors on Tuesday evening. There was a powerful message behind this: the so-called “Warming Stripes”, vertical stripes in red and blue tones, visualize global warming in Great Britain from 1844 to 2022.
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The inventor of these global warming strips, Ed Hawkins, published a photo of the illuminated chalk cliffs on Twitter. Hawkins, who is a professor at the University of Reading, said he wanted to use the campaign to stimulate discussion about climate change and its consequences. the BBC.
According to Hawkins, the “Warming Stripes” are also intended to illustrate global warming to non-scientists. The chalk cliffs were also illuminated with the call “Start a conversation about climate change”.
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“We’re seeing a rapid rise in temperature, largely driven by the burning of fossil fuels, and that already means we’re seeing more intense extreme weather events with serious consequences for all of us,” Hawkins told the BBC. “Any future warming will exacerbate these consequences.
Hawkins first released The Warming Stripes in 2018. There is a Websitewhich creates the visualization for each region.
In Leipzig, the Sachsenbrücke was painted with the Warming Stripes in 2022.
© Source: Silvio Bürger/Visualization: Leipzig for the climate
In 2022, an alliance painted the roadway of the Sachsenbrücke in Leipzig with the colored stripes. At the beginning of the year, however, these had already faded.
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