Show Your Stripes: visualizing climate change in your location by displaying 100 years of average temperatures in color bars

Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist, created Show Your Stripes as a way to easily visualize the past century's climate change: give it a location and it will render a series of stripes representing a century's worth of average annual temperatures (above: global average temperature); as Kottke notes: "The warming patterns for particular regions are not going to be uniformsome places are actually forecast to get cooler and wetter rather than hotter and dryer." (via Kottke) Read the rest