https://showyourstripes.info/s/australasia/australia/all
Our climate badges have a few new designs. There is the Climate Stripes badges and a variety of others including the Blah Blah Blah badges, referencing Greta Thunberg’s famous speech at the 2021 Youth4Climate conference. (Click on the link to see an excerpt of this powerful speech: https://youtu.be/ZwD1kG4PI0w?si=Iq7TbkAoHz7HLUYl)
We have also made some badges using the graphic above to highlight the warming that has taken place in the past 100 plus years. These rises in temperature coincide with rising greenhouse gases, such as CO2, trapping heat around the planet.
It is easier to see the details of the rise in temperature on the bar graph below, but the stripe chart has become a simple, eye catching representation of the disastrous and relentless global emergency that is climate change. Artists and others have created clothing, pillows, installations such as the projections on the white cliffs of Dover and more : see the gallery of pictures below.
From the FAQ on the Show Your Stripes site: “These ‘warming stripe’ graphics are visual representations of the change in temperature as measured in each country, region or city over the past 100+ years. Each stripe or bar represents the temperature in that country, region or city averaged over a year. The stripes typically start around the year 1900 and finish in 2022, but for many countries, regions and cities the stripes start in the 19th century or sometimes even the 18th century”. (For simplicity we have used Australian average temperatures for these badges.)
“These graphics are specifically designed to be as simple as possible, and to start conversations about our warming world and the risks of climate change. There are many sources of information which provide specific details about how temperatures have changed. These graphics fill a gap and enable communication with minimal scientific knowledge required to understand their meaning.”
The stripes we are using are for Australia and they span the years 1888 to 2023.
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