These visualizations make disturbing 2017 temperature milestone look like modern art

The news that 2017 was either the second or third-warmest year on record, depending on the agency doing the official tallying, is not shocking. The past three years were each among the top three warmest on record, with 2016 coming out as the clear winner.

To climate scientists, individual years and where they rank are not particularly significant. Instead, it is the long-term trend that matters, and that’s what has climate scientists so concerned about our future. 

But how do you bring those long-term trends down to Earth for the average person? It’s one thing to say that our world is warming, but it’s another to truly drive that home for people who may not have a master’s degree in climate science, or be obsessively following this field online. Read more…

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