My new dark red climate stripe for 2024 shows it's the hottest year yet

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Global warming stripes show average global temperatures, 1850-2024. Blue stripes denote cooler years, red are warmer. Ed Hawkins, CC BY-NC-ND
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Global warming stripes show average global temperatures, 1850-2024. Blue stripes denote cooler years, red are warmer. Ed Hawkins, CC BY-NC-ND

These 'warming stripes', adopted around the world as a symbol of climate awareness, action and ambition, now include another dark red stripe for 2024

The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the period before widespread industralisation. More than one billion individual...

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