The state of the climate in 2026 gives new meaning to the phrase "very challenging", writes the World Meteorological Organization in its COP31 report.
The last 12 years have been the hottest on record, with the last four years ranking in the top four.
The average global surface temperature in January-September 2026 was about 1.47 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average.
2026 is expected to be the tenth consecutive year of record ocean warming.
An annual loss of ice mass in 2025 would fill five Olympic swimming pools every second.
Fresh water reserves have been declining since 2014.
The skeptics will brush it off again, the activists will take a shot of whiskey and attack the skeptics, most don't care, as long as they don't bomb and have something to eat. and tomorrow? Tomorrow we'll see who was right, but maybe it's already too late. or not.
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