Another record hot year

I’ve been charting the NASA Land-Ocean Temperature Index data for many years, as charts can get across trends very clearly. I’ve updated the data to include 2024.

It is reasonable to debate what is the best policy response to global warming. It is also reasonable to debate how significant a problem this will be in future.

It is not reasonable to deny that global warming is happening, and very rapidly. Normally large temperatures changes occur over centuries, not decades.

This is the annual mean temperature.