The data included in the visualisation comes from the site created by Spencer Weart which tells the history of climate change research as a single story. SPENCER R. WEART is a noted historian specializing in the history of modern physics and geophysics. Until his retirement in 2009 he was Director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) in College Park, Maryland, USA, and he continues to be affiliated with the Center. 

His best-known book is The Discovery of Global Warming (2003, revised edition, 2008, translations in six languages), which is a condensed version of his extensive and widely used scholarly website on the history of climate change research.

The website can browsed below or it can be reached here.