Hopes of keeping global warming below 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels have been all but extinguished after new data confirmed 2024 was the first calendar year to see average temperatures breach ...

Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.

Monthly global surface temperatures for each year since 1940, with anomalies shown relative to the pre-industrial 1850-1900 period using data from Copernicus/ECMWF ERA5. Chart by Carbon Brief. In ...

The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service on Thursday said January 2025 was the hottest on record continuing ...

The ocean stores about 90% of the excess heat from human-caused global warming and is ... Image courtesy of Cheng et al. The long-term rise in ocean temperatures isn’t just an effect of climate ...

A new report from the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service confirms that 2024 was the first year on record with a global average ... surpasses 1.5°C, the long-term average may still lie below ...

"There's been a long-term increase since at least the 1960s ... "All of the internationally produced global temperature datasets show that 2024 was the hottest year since records began in 1850,” ...

Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, weather monitoring agencies announced Friday. It's the first time ...

Regardless, long-term datasets show Earth’s climate is warming ... Snow and Ice Data Center Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph − which reports five-day running averages.

The findings fit with a decades-long trend ... Ocean temperatures have risen steadily since the 1950s, when modern measurements were first taken. The graph shows the global ocean heat content ...

"There's been a long-term increase since at least the 1960s ... "All of the internationally produced global temperature datasets show that 2024 was the hottest year since records began in ...