Here’s a fine example of the power of data visualization. A climate science professor named Ed Hawkins, at the University of Reading in the UK, has come up with a novel way to represent global temperature change over time: Literally spiralling out from the center, as increasing temperatures move the plot farther away from the center over time. Months of the year are around the perimeter, so it neatly shows the difference between weather, seasons, and climate.

I started at This scientist just changed how we think about climate change with one GIF in the WashPo, but it’s not a GIF, it seems to be an MP4 movie inside a Twitter player inside an iframe.

I’ll try to extract the video here for convenience, but you can always view it at WashPo.

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Edit: The video player HTML disappeared. I’ve tried to put it back in, but just in case, here’s the direct URL to the movie: https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CiCax3cXAAAG7Ca.mp4