Maddie Stone, managing editor at Earther, aptly described the visualization as a “climate switchboard.”

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Lipponen’s creation shows temperature trends for 191 countries over a rectangular grid. Each country is represented by a circle. The size of the circle indicates how much the temperature has changed relative to the average temperature between 1951 and 1980, using NASA data.

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Colors are used to illustrate whether it’s warming or cooling. Warming temperatures follow a gradient from orange to red based on intensity, while circles that show cooling are filled in shades of blue.

The visualization is an animated time series that spans 1880 and 2017. When you set the animation in motion, the switchboard — to borrow Stone’s description — is initially filled with an array of blue lights, indicating cool temperatures, but they gradually fade away by the 1970s as the Earth warms.

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By the 2010s, the switchboard becomes flush in big orange and red flashing lights, as if to yell caution or, even stop! The red circles convey at least two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) warming, which some equate with dangerous interference with the climate system.

“No matter how you visualize it, it looks scary!,” Lipponen wrote in his tweet unveiling the switchboard.

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Lipponen presented this same data a year ago using a different visualization style, in which each country’s temperature relative to normal is a spoke that extends from a wheel and expands outward with time as the climate warms.

This tweet has been shared over 10,000 times.

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Twitter has turned into a treasure trove for stellar climate visualizations that lucidly illustrate the unambiguous warming of the Earth’s climate.

Below find several we have featured in the past:

This summer’s record heat, day by day, May through July

Climate change in the United States presented in 123 red, white and blue stripes

Unraveling spiral: The most compelling global warming visualization ever made

Below find two additional excellent visualizations of climate data posted to Twitter this month, which we have not shared before, by Patrick Brown, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science.

The first puts both recently observed climate warming and projections for the future in a long-term historical context, dating back 20,000 years: