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The Climate Museum's 3rd Birthday!
Anvil Long Sleeve Jersey T-shirt
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About this campaign
Please note that the design will be correctly centered on all shirts, as pictured on the long-sleeved shirt.
These beautiful and alarming stripes were developed by Professor Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Each stripe represents a year from 1850 to 2017. The color of the stripe represents the global surface temperature in that year, ranging from dark blue for very cold years, to dark red for very warm years. The difference between the coolest and warmest year is 2.43 degrees F (1.35 degrees C). The coolest years occur before 1920, and the four warmest are the last four years.
The 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change set targets of limiting additional temperature increase to "well below" 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) above pre-industrial temperatures (roughly 1880).
On June 21, 2018, the summer solstice, over 100 meteorologists around the world wore ties, carried mugs and showed the stripes during their broadcasts to call attention to the urgency of climate change, as reported in The Washington Post.
The global average temperature is calculated using a dataset that combines a land-surface air temperature dataset and a sea-surface temperature dataset. Those datasets in turn combine measurement records from weather stations, boats and, more recently, the Global Telecommunications System.
The global average temperature is the average of the northern and southern hemisphere median temperatures, which avoids over-counting northern temperatures where there are many more measurements. Each hemisphere’s average is in turn calculated as the median of 100 different versions of the datasets, each accounting for various uncertainties in different ways.
For more information on Dr. Hawkins's stripes, please visit:
https://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2018/warming-stripes/
For more information on the underlying data, please visit: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut4/
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