Global temperatures continue to soar

See the Latest Average Surface Temperature Graph.

(On the linked site, click on “Learn more” under “Surface Temperature”)

The 2026 graph clearly shows that our planet is continuing to heat rapidly. The last three years, 2023, 2024, and 2025, have soared above all earlier years on the graph.

This Climate Dot US website reproduces trusted climate information that was once available on US government websites. The Trump administration fired climate scientists and trashed these government sites. These scientists created this website

Here is a 2016 “Global Air Temperature” graph from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) covering 1880 to 2015.

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• This 2016 graph showed an ominous rise in temperatures.
• 2015 was the hottest of those years. 2014 was the second hottest.
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• The black line shows the “long-term trend” of the “average global air temperatures” between 1880 and 2015.
• The latest temperature graphs show that this rapid rise in temperatures is continuing.

Current temperatures are dangerous

We are experiencing significant impacts of this warming:

• Hotter weather with extended fire seasons
• Droughts, bushfires and floods are more frequent and intense
• The distribution of plants and animals is shifting towards the poles,
• The planet is losing ice, for example, the Arctic ice loss.
• The oceans are rising faster

The current temperatures and ongoing increases threaten life as we know it on planet Earth.

Related pages

Overview of evidence for climate change

Overview of the dangers of climate change

Created 2014; Modified 5 July 2026