poles, interior of southern continents) the data have been shown to adequately represent global and hemispheric area-averaged temperature variability and change (eg. see Morice et al, 2012) The actual ...

It was likely the first calendar year to be more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial era, with a global mean near-surface temperature of 1.55 ± 0.13 °C above the 1850-1900 average. 2024, which ...