Properties7
TypeArtwork
AuthorEd Hawkins
MovementContemporary Art
WhereThe Museum of Modern Art
Year2018
Note createdFeb 12, 2026
Last updatedFeb 13, 2026

Warming Stripes

Digital data visualization. Each colored stripe represents one year of global temperature anomaly data — blue for cooler years, red for warmer — creating an immediately legible image of climate change from 1850 to the present. Created by Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading, this work bridges information design and urgent science communication.