Show Your Stripes 2025
So you know anyone who denies or ignores climate change? Here's a way to start the conversation.
Today is #ShowYourStripes day. Visit ShowYourStripes.info to find your warming stripes with 4 different designs. For the story of how the stripes were developed, and how they have been extended up into the stratosphere and down into the ocean, see here.
If you like knitting, you can knit a Tempestry scarf for the area you live - warm and colourful, and bound to start a conversation. Or there have been many imaginative art projects involving the stripes. You can wear them or paint them (see examples at Ed Hawkins' Bsky) or explore climate change on PlayStation.
You can get warming stripes for U.S. Cities here.
It's feeling hot here in the UK. How hot? There's a web site for that. It says it is 6.8ºC above average at the moment (12.24F). This is expected to cause 600 deaths. There's a site for France, too.
Despite the efforts of some, we are warming faster than ever.
There are "Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn"
So spread the message. We need to act fast. Very fast! And that includes getting climate deniers and fossil fuel lovers (but I repeat myself) out of office.
I always wanted to learn how to knit 🤗