Global heating visualized

I recently came across #ShowYourStripes, a website that offers a variety of charts to help visualize the extent of global heating over the past 150 years. Here, for example, is a bar chart of global temperature change (relative to the average temperature for the period 1961–2010):

It really underlines the acceleration in global heating since the late 1970s.

One particularly nice feature of the site is that you can use it to generate charts of average temperature change for different regions, countries, and even cities around the world.

Photos: Paris 2019

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral,
Paris

I’ve just added a few more photos to my Flickr account. These were taken during a brief stay in Paris at the end of September 2019. We were there to celebrate the decision of the Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox Churches in Western Europe to re-establish relations with the Moscow Patriarchate. But it was also our first visit to Paris, and we discovered how very beautiful the city is.