January continued a run of extraordinary heat, in which 18 of the last 19 months saw an average global temperature of more than 2.7 degrees F above pre-industrial times, the European Union's ...

The year is closing out with more global temperature records that, in aggregate, largely defy what many climate scientists expected for 2024. Why it matters: Among the potential factors driving ...

Variations in global temperature, 1850 to 2020. Courtesy of Professor Ed Hawkins, University of Reading. This graph shows that there are variations in the Earth’s average annual temperatures.

Average temperatures across the world’s oceans reached an all-time high in 2024, a new multi-team study shows. The temperatures surpassed even those of 2023, which themselves represented a ...

As El Niño faded, so did global temperatures; but they staged a comeback ... which starts with a full-blown El Niño should be the hottest in history is not surprising. The second chart, which compares ...

Still, 2024 was the first year in recorded history when the average global temperature surpassed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, raising alarms about the persistent increase in Earth’s warming.

The global surface air temperature average was 0.1 degrees Celsius warmer than in January 2024 and 0.79 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average for the month of January. Related Record ...

Yet, not only was December 2024 ranked the second warmest December month in recorded history ... to agree on. Chart 1(Abhishek Jha) Why is La Nina not cooling down global temperatures?

Ocean temperatures have risen steadily since the 1950s, when modern measurements were first taken. The graph shows the global ocean heat content (OHC) for the upper 2,000 meters (6,562 feet ...