State of the climate
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
The year so far has been one of extremes, featuring record-shattering heatwaves, wildfires and flooding, as well as the warmest-ever northern-hemisph...Read More
While the early months of 2021 have been cooler than much of the past decade, global temperatures have risen in recent months as the effects of La Ni...Read More
After a record-tying warm year in 2020, the world is on track for a cooler year in 2021, driven by moderately strong La Niña conditions in the late ...Read More
With all the official climate data now in, the world’s surface temperatures in 2020 have been confirmed as effectively tied with 2016 as the warmes...Read More