{"id":18385,"date":"2019-09-20T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/?p=18385"},"modified":"2019-09-20T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T16:44:08","slug":"showyourstripes-how-climate-data-became-a-cultural-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2019\/09\/20\/showyourstripes-how-climate-data-became-a-cultural-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"#ShowYourStripes: how climate data became a cultural icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">Climate strikes aside, one way that scientists can trigger a step change in attitudes to climate change is by infiltrating popular culture, says <\/span>Professor Ed Hawkins <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/showyourstripes-how-climate-data-became-a-cultural-icon-123457\">in a new piece for The Conversation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18387\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/Unorganized\/EnterShikariStripes808693_55832-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/Unorganized\/EnterShikariStripes808693_55832-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/Unorganized\/EnterShikariStripes808693_55832-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/Unorganized\/EnterShikariStripes808693_55832-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/Unorganized\/EnterShikariStripes808693_55832-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/Unorganized\/EnterShikariStripes808693_55832.jpg 2047w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It seems that people are finally waking up to the threat of climate change. The most poignant sign of this for me was seeing an infographic I created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/releases\/PR808692.aspx\">adorning the main music stage at Reading Festival 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the majority of those in the crowd may not have grasped its true meaning, or been in the frame of mind to understand it, it was a significant moment. A popular rock band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/events\/e24mzc\/play\/p07lg21n\/p07kc2y2\">publicly endorsed climate research<\/a> <em>[watch from 16 mins 50 secs]<\/em> and literally put it centre stage.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk\/2018\/warming-stripes\">climate stripes<\/a>\u00a0illustrate the global average temperature for every year since 1850 in the form of a coloured stripe. Shades of blue represent cooler years and red, warmer years. The overall effect is a striking trend towards hotter temperatures in recent decades, as a result of human-caused climate change.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"align-center zoomable\">\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/292579\/original\/file-20190916-19055-edp2fj.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;rect=0%2C0%2C3768%2C1890&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=1000&amp;fit=clip\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/292579\/original\/file-20190916-19055-edp2fj.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;rect=0%2C0%2C3768%2C1890&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;fit=clip\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Global average temperatures 1850-2018 \u2013 each stripe is one year. Blue stripes are cooler years, red stripes are warmer years.<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"enlarge_hint\"><\/div><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The climate stripes follow other visualisations of climate data that I\u2019ve created in recent years, including an animation depicting global temperature rise data as an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk\/spirals\/\">ever-expanding spiral<\/a>. This was used in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/matthewchampion\/this-british-scientist-was-shocked-to-see-his-gif-appear-in\">opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics in 2016<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 more public recognition of science where you\u2019d perhaps not expect it.<\/p>\n<p>These graphics are simple and bright, but they\u2019re based on solid science and carry a serious message. They translate complex data into an easily accessible format that transcends language and needs almost no context to explain it. The climate stripes have already been used on posters, on placards in the youth climate strikes and on banners and t-shirts around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Helping science to make this leap from the lab to social media is crucial to changing mindsets. My research has often focused on communicating the impacts of climate change to new audiences. The more people that see and understand this huge problem, the better chance we have of solving it.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in 2019 we created\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/showyourstripes.info\/\">a website<\/a>\u00a0that allows people to download climate stripes for around 200 countries and individual US states. This allowed people to share stripes which charted the recent climate history of their own corner of the world. TV weather forecasters around the world joined the campaign and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TevinWooten\/status\/1142107271205441536\">used the stripes to talk about climate change in their regular broadcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">After a million downloads in the first week, <\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ed_hawkins\/status\/1140664300010450944?s=20\">dozens of examples<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">\u00a0appeared online of people wearing the stripes on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TevinWooten\/status\/1142107271205441536\">ties<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrAndreaDutton\/status\/1142068837061259269\">scarves<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">, or\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/3\/4\/18246245\/climate-change-warming-stripes\">even printing them on their Tesla<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">. A town in Germany even printed them on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/energy_charts\/status\/1171431977322307588\">a tram<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-react-class=\"Tweet\" data-react-props=\"{&quot;tweetId&quot;:&quot;1171431977322307588&quot;}\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/energy_charts\/status\/1171431977322307588\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"5\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/energy_charts\/status\/1171431977322307588\" data-tweet-id=\"1171431977322307588\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header\">\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor js-inViewportScribingTarget\" data-scribe=\"component:author\">\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor-nameScreenNameContainer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\" data-scribe=\"component:tweet\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-card\">\n<article class=\"MediaCard customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\" data-scribe=\"component:card\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-media\" data-scribe=\"element:photo\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-widthConstraint js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaContainer js-cspForcedStyle MediaCard--roundedTop MediaCard--roundedBottom\" data-style=\"padding-bottom: 58.9167%\"><a class=\"MediaCard-mediaAsset NaturalImage\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/energy_charts\/status\/1171431977322307588\/photo\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"NaturalImage-image\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EEHDKucVAAMVqbF?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"700\" height=\"413\" data-image=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EEHDKucVAAMVqbF\" data-image-format=\"jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"TweetInfo\">\n<div class=\"TweetInfo-like\">\n<div data-scribe=\"element:heart\">\n<div class=\"Icon Icon--heart \" title=\"Like\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Like\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">A tram in Freiburg, Germany, displaying Ed&#8217;s warming stripes.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"CallToAction-text\" data-scribe=\"element:conversation_text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Explaining climate science to the public can be tricky. The scientific consensus is that the world is warming, but each region of the world is warming at a very different rate. Most parts of the UK are about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/mapped-how-every-part-of-the-world-has-warmed-and-could-continue-to-warm\">1\u2103 warmer<\/a> than they were a century ago, while parts of the Arctic are almost 3\u2103 warmer. The climate stripes can communicate this nuance almost instantly.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">If we want climate action to become the demand of a mass movement then we can\u2019t expect discussions to be restricted to po-faced conversations between scientists and politicians. As grave a matter as it is, it needs to become a conversation we have everywhere, whether it be over the fence to our neighbours, <\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/to-get-climate-crisis-talked-about-get-it-on-soaps-like-coronation-street-and-eastenders-117220\">on television soaps<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">\u00a0or while dancing at festivals. These simple graphics have helped start those conversations.<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-react-class=\"Tweet\" data-react-props=\"{&quot;tweetId&quot;:&quot;1140664300010450944&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"3\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-3\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ed_hawkins\/status\/1140664300010450944\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"4\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ed_hawkins\/status\/1140664300010450944\" data-tweet-id=\"1140664300010450944\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\" data-scribe=\"component:tweet\">\n<p><a class=\"MediaCard-mediaAsset NaturalImage\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ed_hawkins\/status\/1140664300010450944\/photo\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"NaturalImage-image\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D9Ry0aAXYAE3cHs?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" data-image=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D9Ry0aAXYAE3cHs\" data-image-format=\"jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"Tweet-card\">\n<article class=\"MediaCard customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\" data-scribe=\"component:card\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-media\" data-scribe=\"element:photo\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-widthConstraint js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaContainer js-cspForcedStyle MediaCard--roundedTop MediaCard--roundedBottom\" data-style=\"padding-bottom: 50.0000%\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>@NetZeroMN tweeted a picture of his Tesla painted in the warming stripes<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Climate change is inevitably reported in a negative way, but we can be positive about the story we tell. Infiltrating popular culture is one way scientists can help trigger a step change in attitudes that will lead to mass action. We face some difficult choices, but we still have time to make changes that will create a hopeful future.<\/p>\n<p><em>Professor Ed Hawkins is <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/ed-hawkins\/\">a climate scientist in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) at the University of Reading<\/a>. Current research interests are <a href=\"https:\/\/weatherrescue.wordpress.com\/\">in rescuing millions of lost weather observations to better understand extreme weather<\/a> and decadal variability of the climate. He runs the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk\/\">Climate Lab Book blog<\/a> and is a lead author for the upcoming 6th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate strikes aside, one way that scientists can trigger a step change in attitudes to climate change is by infiltrating popular culture, says Professor Ed Hawkins in a new piece&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#45;&#98;&#108;&#111;&#103;&#47;&#50;&#48;&#49;&#57;&#47;&#48;&#57;&#47;&#50;&#48;&#47;&#115;&#104;&#111;&#119;&#121;&#111;&#117;&#114;&#115;&#116;&#114;&#105;&#112;&#101;&#115;&#45;&#104;&#111;&#119;&#45;&#99;&#108;&#105;&#109;&#97;&#116;&#101;&#45;&#100;&#97;&#116;&#97;&#45;&#98;&#101;&#99;&#97;&#109;&#101;&#45;&#97;&#45;&#99;&#117;&#108;&#116;&#117;&#114;&#97;&#108;&#45;&#105;&#99;&#111;&#110;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1438,1435,189,1433],"class_list":["post-18385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climatestrike","tag-climate-action","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-stripes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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