Global Climate Events
Global Climate Events
Our Planet is Sending Signals
Real climate events unfolding across the globe right now — and why your food choices are one of the most powerful responses available to you.
April 2026 · Live TrackingNOAA Climate Data · 1880 – 2024
A Planet Running a Fever
Global average surface temperature anomaly, relative to the 20th-century baseline
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2024 was the warmest year since global records began in 1850 — by a wide margin
The global average surface temperature in 2024 was +1.29°C above the 20th-century baseline — and 2.63°F above pre-industrial levels. The 10 warmest years on record have all occurred in the last decade (2015–2024). It has been 48 consecutive years since Earth recorded a cooler-than-average year.
+1.29°C in 2024
3× faster since 1982
48 yrs above avg
The Consequences
This Rising Heat is Rewriting Our Weather
Every fraction of a degree of warming doesn't just make summers hotter — it supercharges the entire climate system. More heat means more energy in the atmosphere, longer droughts, more intense storms, accelerated ice melt, and weather patterns becoming unpredictable in ways that affect our food, our water, and our safety. These are no longer warnings about the future. They are events happening right now, in real time, across every continent.
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More weather disasters since the 1970s — per UNDRR global data
$300B+
Annual climate-linked economic losses globally, and rising every year
3.6B
People already living in climate-vulnerable zones — UN data
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