150 years of global warming in a minute-long symphony

This is what global warming would sound like if it was a symphony.

Sometimes, a tune can say so much more than an image or words. Here, we turn almost 150 years of global temperatures into music. The higher the temperature, the higher the pitch of the note. And the louder the note, the more carbon there is in the atmosphere.

We start in 1880 when temperatures are below 14C. They stay there until the late 1970s...

Video by Mark Rice-Oxley, Alex Purcell and Ekaterina Ochagavia, theguardian.com