The Earth's descent into the Sixth Circle of Hell plotted out by US scientists

Animation shows what would happen to the world's average temperature if 'greenhouse gases continue to rise unchecked through the end of the century'


The US Geological Survey has produced an animation showing how the Earth’s temperature has risen from 1850 to the present day – and how it might continue towards a point described by one leading commentator as “the sixth circle of Hell”.

The gif was originally designed by Reading University meteorologist Dr Ed Hawkins to show how temperatures for each month of the last 165 years have gradually increased since the middle of the 19th century to the present day.

The spiral animation, with the figures for each year building up from a central core, went viral on social media with more than 2.5 million shares on one Facebook page alone.

Now the USGS has expanded its range into the future to show how the temperature record might change if the Earth warms by an average of more than five degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial age.

Its simulation is based on the “most aggressive scenario” produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in which “greenhouse gases continue to rise unchecked through the end of the century”, the USGS said..................... more


Link to USGS animation;

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/simulated-global-temperature-change-0


http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-global-warming-temperature-celsius-earth-sixth-circle-of-hell-usgs-a7061861.html