Climate change mural unveiled at Norwich City Hall in historic year for Climatic Research Unit

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On the 50th anniversary year of UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), the stark impact of climate change both locally and worldwide has been brought into a unique focus by a giant mural now on display in Norwich City Council’s council chamber. 

The mural, entitled ‘Climate Mural for our Times’, is a 10m x 1.5m piece that includes a record of global temperature over time (66 million BC through to the end of the next century) represented by the hues of the sky, and informed by CRU’s ‘state-of-the-art’ climate science.  
 
Produced by Norwich-based artist Gennadiy Ivanov, the mural also features renderings of the impacts of climate change on the local landscape and its human inhabitants. It is believed that this is the first time that art and leading-edge science have been combined to give such a vivid portrayal of the challenges posed by climate change and its impacts in the past, the present, and the future.