State of the climate
As 2024 passes its midpoint, the global climate continues to push into uncharted territory. Carbon Brief's analysis indicates a 95% probabil... Read More
This year is shaping up to either match or surpass 2023 as the hottest year on record. Global temperatures have been exceptionally high over the p... Read More
Last year was the warmest since records began in the mid-1800s – and likely for many thousands of years before. It was the first year in w... Read More
The first three quarters of 2023 has seen exceptional heat globally, putting 2023 on track to be the warmest year since records began in the mid-1800... Read More
The first half of 2023 has been extremely warm worldwide as a developing El Niño event on top of human-caused climate change helped drive temperatur... Read More
This year is shaping up to be one of top four warmest years on record – and has a modest chance of being the warmest on record. Exceptional... Read More
With a new year underway, most of the climate data for the whole of 2022 is now available. And this data shows that last year set new records for ind... Read More
This year has been one of extremes, featuring record-shattering summer heatwaves and devastating floods. Western Europe and parts of Asia have had th... Read More
The summer of 2022 is shaping up to be a scorcher. June 2022 saw the warmest temperatures on record over the world’s land areas – and record-brea... Read More
After a slightly cooler 2021 on the Earth’s surface, the world is on track for 2022 to be somewhere between the fourth and eighth warmest year sinc... Read More
The climate data for 2021 is now mostly in, and it has proved to be another noteworthy year across the oceans, atmosphere, cryosphere and surface tem... Read More