Warming stripes · 1850-2024

One stripe per year since 1850

Ed Hawkins' famous form on this design system's own two poles: the link blue for cool years, the accent for warm ones, paper for the average. No axis needed - the drift to the right says everything.

One stripe per year since 1850 Warming stripes of 177 years of global temperature anomaly from 1850; blue early decades give way to increasingly intense warm stripes toward the present. 1850 1900 1950 2000 2024 ONE STRIPE = ONE YEAR (177 YEARS) · ANOMALY VS 1961-1990 MEAN, -0.23 TO +1.53°C · HADCRUT5 VIA OUR WORLD IN DATA · AFTER ED HAWKINS