#5 The power of GIFs


These were shown to me in a Global-Environmental-Change lecture (thank you to Prof.Anson for always making lectures relevant), and I think they are pretty powerful tools to show how we are changing our climate (...and so the setting that produces our weather!)...mostly from Ed Hawkins (twitter-users you must follow him!): 






Kevin Pluck - mostly interested in sea ice!

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