Graphs that freak me out

Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading, prepared an animated spiral graph of global temperatures up to 2016 which leaves very little doubt about the tendency.  If only the ominous rings at 1.5º and 2º were asymptotes.

 

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Not only did Exxon know in the 80's that Global Warming would be a thing, their modelled predictions of it have been uncannily accurate so far. The scary part is the right half, with no orange dots yet.

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According to the Guardian, CO₂ levels grow inexorably, despite everything we're supposedly doing: