For the love of weather podcast is back with a new series. This first podcast is a hero-gram to climate scientist Prof Ed Hawkins.

Climate scientist Professor Ed Hawkins is an expert in climate change communications. Ed was surprised when his visualisation of a warming world burst into life when his climate stripes #showyourstripes were used in the 2016 Rio Olympics.

#showyourstripws is a simple and unique way of using colour to visualising climate change through warmth and colour.

One of Ed’s many climate projects was undertaken in 2020 when he set up a project to transcribe and digitise millions of paper rainfall observations. This was undertaken by thousands of volunteers, the results of which would feed into and ultimately make climate models more accurate.

It was a project he thought would take a very long time to complete, but with the help of lots of volunteers they managed to complete it in just 16 days; the results have been phenomenal.

Ed chats about his brilliant ‘warming stripes’ - #showyouratripes , which are a simple and unique way to breakdown complex science into simple colours to highlight a warming world and an incredible strength of spirit to keep going to find new ways to tell the story of climate change - a story he cared about deeply.

The warming stripes are available for lots of countries and cities around the world and you can find them here - https://showyourstripes.info/

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