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Whatever your craft, use these temperature charts to create new or modify your existing designs with accurate global temperature colourways. See the Craftivist Showcase for suggestions of other climate charts used by other craftivists.
Whatever your craft, use these temperature charts to create new or modify your existing designs with accurate global temperature colourways. See the Craftivist Showcase for suggestions of other climate charts used by other craftivists.
Temperature charts are available for three different types of graph spanning different time periods.:
22,000 year XKCD timeline
1920-2022 Warming Stripes or #ShowYourStripes graphic
1900-2100 IPCC 2023 graphic
Across the range of charts, there is an answer to most scepticism about human induced climate change, both in the past and into the future.
Alternatively, use the data that is significant to you, such as biodiversity data or glaciogenic data.
22,000 year XKCD Earth Temperature Timeline scarf
22,000 year XKCD Earth Temperature Timeline scarf
100+ years Accurate Warming Stripes scarf
100+ years Accurate Warming Stripes scarf
160-200 years IPCC 2023 chart with 2 futures
160-200 years IPCC 2023 chart with 2 futures
The above graphic is part of a whimsical but accurate representation of the global temperatures since the last ice age created by xkcd.com. Made in 2016, it illustrates that, some time in the last decade, global temperatures moved higher than the 'Goldilocks zone' for human development that we have been in for at least the last 10,000 years.
Temperature per years charts are available in a separate tab in the sheet below.
This ‘warming stripe’ or #ShowYourStripes graphic is a visual representations of the change in global temperature over the past 100+ years. It uses a 16 shade blue-red gradient to indicate the rise in average temperatures. Temperature per year charts are available for variations of this graphic suitable to use in craft projects.
There are various levels of granularity, produced by combining groups of 2, 3 or 4 of the 16 shades to create 8, 6 and 5 colour charts suitable for craft colourways. Your choice of which to use will be influenced by the level of accuracy vs. artistry, and complexity vs. completion speed desired. The charts are available in the sheet below.
Click the link above for the original. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the international body of scientists that proposed the Kyoto accord and the Paris targets for carbon emissions. Their 2023 report included the above graphic, with five future scenarios of potential future temperatures depending on how rapidly the world weans itself of carbon.
Temperature per year chart are available in a separate tab in the sheet below for some of these future scenarios. As with the XKCD chart, the world's 'current path' is the worst scenario presented.
Click or tap in the sheet below to open. The other tabs will then be accessible. Tabs contain:
Temperature per year charts used for the Accurate 100 year scarf shown above.
Comparison of different temperature per year charts at different levels of granularity compared with the official Warming Stripes
A knitting pattern for complete beginners using a simplified Trend chart and instructions with video links.
Temperature per year chart for creating the XKCD scarf shown above.
Suggestions of colour combinations and yarns.
A sample spreadsheet to use connected with a Google form to collect orders for your items
A list of lacy knit designs that could be used for creating items for use in warmer temperatures
If you are having problems accessing the other tabs, please contact me on Facebook group with details of what device you were using and what the problem is.
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