World Meteorological Organization data shows last year’s average temperature was 1.15C more than pre-industrial levels
The relentless challenge of global heating has again been underscored by the tally of a passing year, with 2022 ranking as one of the warmest years ever recorded and the past eight years now collectively the hottest documented by modern science.
The cooling influence of La Niña, a periodic climate event now in its third year that delivers brisker temperatures to parts of the globe, helped take some of the edge off the 2022 heat, with the year ranking as either the fifth or sixth hottest year on record.Photograph: World Meteorological Organization
The long-term trend is starkly apparent, however, with the eight hottest years ever recorded all occurring since 2015, with 2016 still the hottest of them all, and each decade since the 1980s progressively hotter than the last. The 10 hottest years have all taken place since 2010.
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