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    <description>Random musings—mostly for me, but you might accidentally find something useful too</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:07:27 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Use these tags to browse related posts.&#xA;&#xA;!--more--&#xA;&#xA;Climate&#xA;EndOfYearReview&#xA;F1&#xA;Mastodon&#xA;Movies&#xA;Pixelfed&#xA;RaspberryPi&#xA;Science&#xA;TV]]&gt;</description>
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<p><a href="https://blog.rstokes.uk/tag:Climate" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Climate</span></a>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Show Your Stripes</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Today is Show Your Stripes Day; a global moment to share our concern about how the climate is changing and the need for urgent action.&#xA;&#xA;!--more--&#xA;&#xA;&#34;Warming stripes&#34; are a powerful visual representation of how temperatures have increased around the world since the Industrial Revolution.&#xA;&#xA;Temperature change in the UK – warming stripes&#xA;&#xA;Temperature change in the UK – bar chart&#xA;&#xA;Created by climate scientist a href=&#34;https://fediscience.org/@ed_hawkins&#34;Professor Ed Hawkins/a at the a href=&#34;https://www.reading.ac.uk/research/themes/theme-environment/rd-climate&#34;University of Reading/a, each stripe represents one year. The colours transition from cool blues to warm reds to represent the temperature increases seen throughout the past 150 years or more.&#xA;&#xA;Show your stripes at:&#xA;a href=&#34;https://showyourstripes.info&#34;showyourstripes.info/a&#xA;&#xA;brtags: #Science #Climate]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today is <strong>Show Your Stripes Day</strong>; a global moment to share our concern about how the climate is changing and the need for urgent action.</p>



<p><em>“Warming stripes”</em> are a powerful visual representation of how temperatures have increased around the world since the Industrial Revolution.</p>

<p><img src="https://showyourstripes.info/stripes/EUROPE-United_Kingdom-%3CAll%20of%20United%20Kingdom%3E-1884-2025-MO-withlabels.png" alt="Temperature change in the UK – warming stripes"></p>

<p><img src="https://showyourstripes.info/stripes/EUROPE-United_Kingdom-%3CAll%20of%20United%20Kingdom%3E-1884-2025-MO-barslabel.png" alt="Temperature change in the UK – bar chart"></p>

<p>Created by climate scientist <a href="https://fediscience.org/@ed_hawkins">Professor Ed Hawkins</a> at the <a href="https://www.reading.ac.uk/research/themes/theme-environment/rd-climate">University of Reading</a>, each stripe represents one year. The colours transition from cool blues to warm reds to represent the temperature increases seen throughout the past 150 years or more.</p>

<p>Show your stripes at:
<a href="https://showyourstripes.info"><strong>showyourstripes.info</strong></a></p>

<p><br>tags: <a href="https://blog.rstokes.uk/tag:Science" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Science</span></a> <a href="https://blog.rstokes.uk/tag:Climate" class="hashtag"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Climate</span></a></p>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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