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Given that the Paris climate negotiations are underway, it is fair to start off with something about rising temperatures. This comes from a neat animation posted on Data Seeds’ WeChat Account that visualizes the warming trend within China’s borders since 1951. It shows that the temperature has risen particularly since the 1980s, with the highest temperature deviations registered in 1998, 2006, and 2007. See the historical pattern in the half-minute video below.