114K views · 1.8K reactions | Don’t like graphs? This new visualization shows monthly global temperature anomalies (changes from an average) between 1880 and 2021, based on NASA data. White and blue = cooler temperatures Orange and red = warmer temperatures As you can see, temperatures are warmer the closer we get to the present, increasingly due to human activities. More: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/300/video-climate-spiral/ | NASA Climate Change | Facebook

Scientists attribute global warming to the human expansion of the "greenhouse effect" — warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space: https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/ | NASA Climate Change