I like to imagine a world where people care as much about the North Atlantic Ocean, as about a small vessel lost inside of it.
Here's a 8567 pixel #ShowYourStripes from the North Atlantic Ocean since 2000.
June 20 pales the warming from recent years:
Also see the Ocean Heat Content stripes.
Because about 90% of the heat from global warming goes into heating the oceans, this is one of the clearest signs of our warming world.
From @Lijing_Cheng et al.:
@Lijing_Cheng And here's 12,000 years of stripes!
From 6000 years ago until the industrial revolution the planet cooled down, even though greenhouse gases increased! (likely due to aerosol emissions, which helped stabilize Holocene climate!)
@Lijing_Cheng @ed_hawkins From study by @MichaelPErb et al.
Full resolution and study available here:
cp.copernicus.org/articles/18/25…
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