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June 21, 2018

Nearly 100 U.S. Meteorologists to Stage On-Air Climate Change Protest
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In climate news, nearly 100 on-air meteorologists will wear blue and red
stripes as they go to broadcast today across the United States, in a
coordinated effort to draw attention to the threat of human-caused
climate change. The stripes are a reference to a "warming stripes"
graphic designed by climate scientist Ed Hawkins, which shows global
average temperatures as a series of vertical stripes covering the years
1850 to 2017. The graphic shows a shift from blue stripes to red, with
the most dramatic increases in temperature coming in recent years.


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