| Wednesday, 26 April 2023 |
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Good morning [%first_name |Dear Reader%],
It’s Shaswata for Green Margins this week.
A few days ago, I came across this beautiful data visualisation on the United Nations’ Climate Change page on LinkedIn. Antti Lipponen, a researcher at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, is credited for the chart, and it shows changes in average temperatures by region from 1881 to 2021.
We start off with a fair amount of cool blues and yellows at the turn of the previous century, with just a smattering of reds and oranges. But by the time we get to the end, it’s all shades of hot fiery red.
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[Source: United Nations Climate Change/LinkedIn] |
Last week, we signed off talking about how good news seems hard to come by in this space. And perhaps the chart above only serves to underline that point. But this wasn’t the only data-based climate sector presentation that caught our eye this month.
The other one is a lot more heartening.
