Earlier this month, Schmidt came up with a new one , showing monthly temperature distributions and how they’ve changed since the late 19th century:Gavin Schmidt’s GIFs, especially. The climatologist and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has a knack for distilling large amounts of data into easily digestible animations, often illustrating historical shifts in our climate. Simply put, the animation illustrates how often a month reached certain temperatures over time. Taller peaks for each month’s individual graph indicate that month hitting that temperature more often, while lower ones mean those temperatures were less frequent. And here’s a version of the graphic that illustrates the same warming trend in the context of broader seasonal temperature shifts.

Source: Huffington Post July 28, 2017 22:41 UTC