English: English: Warming stripes graphic depicting annual mean global temperatures (1850-2018, from World Meteorological Organization data)), said in the reference to have been produced for the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) provisional State of the Climate report
General notes:
Credit for general concept of warming stripes: climate scientist Ed Hawkins, University of Reading, U.K.
Data values are visualized using color rather than locations of points on a graph.
Horizontal scale is time, from 1850 (left) to 2018 (right).
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Ed Hawkins, climate scientist at University of Reading. CarlinMack created SVG version
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Version 2: positions stripes more precisely at 3780/169 pixels apart (no rounding to integers as in Version 1). . . . . Also makes each stripe wider than absolutely necessary, to eliminate tiny "white gap" that appeared between stripes in some renderings of Version 1.