#2500: Global Temperature Over My Lifetime explain

Graph of temperature over time, titled:

“Global average temperature

Over my lifetime

(60-month running June average, NOAA NCEI time series)”

The X axis is in years, going from 1980 to a little after 2020. Each decade is marked.

The Y axis is in °C, with the “20th century average” at the bottom, up to +1°C (from the average), labelled every 0.2°C.

Certain points and periods on the graph are marked and contain descriptions of events and actions that occurred in Randall’s life.

; November 1982 : Exxon International report predicts that fossil fuel use will raise global temperatures to about 1°C above their normal levels within 40 years

; October 1984 : I’m born in Easton, PA

; Summer 1991 : I learn to ride a bike

; Spring 1992 : My elementary school celebrates Earth Day and I learn about the greenhouse effect

; 1993-1996 : I get very into Star Wars and Animorphs

; Fall 1996 : I stand around awkwardly at my first middle school dance

; Spring 2002 : I get accepted into college

; Spring 2006 : I somehow graduate despite spending most of my time playing Mario Kart

; Summer 2006 : I see An Inconvenient Truth in the theater and feel anxious

; Fall 2011 : I get married

; Summer 2012 : I read headlines about a global warning “pause” and hope that maybe things aren’t so bad

; 2013-2021 : I read more about climate science and get steadily more alarmed

; Spring 2016 : I read the 1982 Exxon report

; June 2020 : Global 60-month average reaches +0.94°C, Easton, PA is 2°C hotter than normal for the fifth year in a row

; Today : (no description)

; 2022 (near future) : [Large X within a circle] 1982 Exxon Prediction