Animation shows the dangerous acceleration of global warming in over 166 years

As mercury hits the tipping point year after year, it is spelling doom for the future generations.

Ed Hawkins, scientist at University of Reading Climate, boils down 166 years of data into this brilliant 15-second animation depicting rising global temperature.

It illustrates just how serious the threat of global warming is. Using data from the UK Met Office's Hadley Centre, he constructed this animation to show average monthly global temperature increase in comparison to the pre-industrial times (1850-1900)

"The pace of change is immediately obvious, especially over the past few decades," Hawkins wrote on his blog, the Climate Lab Book .

Scientists all over the world are finding it increasingly difficult to convey the urgency of the situation. The UN Paris Climate decided 1.5C to be the ideal number to keep global warming at bay.

However, the first three months of 2016 smashed records by being the warmest calendar till date.February, which was unusually warm, touched an alarming milestone of 1.35 degrees Celsius above the long-term average.

After El Nino, another reason for rising temperatures when compared to pre-Industrial Revolution levels, is caused by burning fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.

More recently, five Pacific islands have disappeared due to rising seas and erosion and this is the first confirmation on the impact of climate change on coastlines, reports Reuters.

As we are rapidly barrelling towards a disastrous and irreversible change in climate, there is no room to be complacent about it.

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