What is 'Show Your Stripes Day?' Climate Control scientist explains importance of warming strips - WLS-TV
What is 'Show Your Stripes Day?' Climate Control scientist explains importance of warming strips - ABC7 Chicago
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Wednesday is "Show Your Stripes Day," but we don't mean of the patriotic variety.
Tracy Butler is talking about "warming stripes" and the rising temperatures across the globe and here in Chicago.
It is a day to spread awareness about climate change using warming stripes graphics that show temperature trends over the last 100-plus years.
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Dr. Daniel Gilford, a climate scientist at Climate Control, joined Tracy to talk about the purpose of "Show Your Stripes Day" and a tip that viewers can do to serve the Earth.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.