According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), the planet’s temperature (land and ocean combined) has increased, on average, at a rate of 0.08 degrees every decade since 1880. That said, this rate of increase in the last 42 years has been more than double that speed – averaging 0.18 degrees per decade since 1981.
As for the Earth’s temperature, there’s a 93 per cent chance that one of the years between 2022 and 2026 will be the warmest to date.
While the amount of CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere – 417.2 parts per million in 2022 – is the highest in 400 million years, and projected to get higher.