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Burning Embers is a diagram which illustrates the prediction of near future apocalypse due to climate change. The diagram comes from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a project of the United Nations. IPCC published Burning Embers to explain the scientific consensus on climate change.

Because Burning Embers is a diagram of the apocalypse, with the apocalypse being the most important event ever, it alone as an illustration has been the subject of much discussion, scrutiny, and revision. The IPCC based Burning Embers on information from Reasons for Concern, a report predicting ???. The IPCC first published Reasons for Concern and Burning Embers in the 2001 IPCC Third Assessment Report and updated it in the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. From that point, many scientists and organizations have published their own variations of it.

Description
The graph displays two thermometers, one of which shows pre-industrial temperature and the other which shows average global contemporary temperature.

Commentary
Diana Liverman said that the Burning Embers diagram, along with the Tipping Points map, have been the most influential illustrations presenting the scientific consensus on climate change.

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The diagram makes an attempt to visualize risk and danger, which are abstract concepts that sometime scientists would avoid trying to communicate.

The IPCC excluded the diagram from its 2007 report after some governments objected to its inclusion.