Six Decades of Warming Earth

This color-coded map displays a progression of changing global surface temperatures anomalies from 1950 through 2013. The intensity of the yellow, orange, and red colors shows how much temperatures have increased compared to baseline temperature data collected from 1880 to the present. (Credit: NASA/GSFC, GISS).



This visualization shows the steady and rapid warming of the planet since the middle of the 20th century, with regions in the Arctic and Siberia warming as much as 2 to 4 degrees C (3.6 to 7. 2 degrees F) above a long-term average. READ MORE @ Yale 360