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2024

1/12/2024 – Global Temperature Report: 2023 Was Warmest Year Since 1850

•  Reuters – 2024 could be world’s hottest year as June breaks record – 7/8/24
•  Grist – The mysterious x-factor behind a year of unbelievable heat – 6/6/2024
•  The Boston Globe – The Earth had its warmest May ever, the 12th record-breaking month in a row. How does New England stack up? – 5/31/24
•  The Washington Post – A streak of record global heat nears one year mark– 5/2/24
•  The Los Angeles Times – Global hot streak continues: February was Earth’s warmest on record – 3/7/24
•  The Washington Post – Where the world warmed the most in Earth’s hottest year – 1/12/24

2023

Press Release: 2/12/2023 – Global Temperature Report: 2022 Was Fifth Warmest Year Since 1850

• The Hill – A glimpse of optimism on climate change – 11/23/23
• Wired – September’s record-shattering heat was ‘absolutely gobsmackingly bananas’ – 10/4/23
• Axios – “Gobsmackingly” warm September was Earth’s hottest on record – 10/4/23
• Scientific American – September was the most anomalously hot month ever – 10/4/23
• Nature – Earth’s average 2023 temperature is now likely to reach 1.5°C of warming – 9/22/23
• The Washington Post – Planet’s hottest month confirmed while Earth keeps baking – 8/15/23
• Axios – Earth’s record hot July boosts odds 2023 will be the warmest year – 8/15/2023
• PBS News Hour – Scientists look for additional factors beyond climate change and El Niño in July heat wave – 8/9/2023
• The New York Times – Ocean temperatures are hotter than ever; what does it mean for Earth? – 8/3/2023
• Bloomberg – 2023 is already on track to be the hottest ever recorded – 7/17/2023
• Axios – America’s cruel summer – 7/8/2023
• The New York Times – Heat records broken across Earth – 7/6/2023
• Wall Street Journal – This June was the hottest on record – 7/7/2023
• Forbes – July 3: Earth experiences hottest day on record – 7/4/2023
• Reuters – Fact Check: Eight cooler years cannot be extrapolated to draw conclusions on long-term warming – 2/3/2023
• The Washington Post – With record heat, floods, and droughts, 2022 was among Earth’s warmest years – 1/12/2023
• Bloomberg – 2022 was one of five hottest years on record, scientists find – 1/12/2023
• The New York Times – The last eight years were the hottest on record – 1/10/2023

2022

Press Release: 1/13/2022 – Global Temperature Report: 2021 was Warmest Year on Record for 1.8 Billion People

• – The Washington Post – The surprising reason parts of Earth are warming more slowly – 12/14/2022
• The Washington Post – Climate change threatening ‘things Americans value most’ U.S. report says – 11/7/2022
• Barrons – Rising Temperatures – 11/6/2022
• The Los Angeles Times – Four major climate tipping points are close to triggering, study says – 9/8/22
• The Washington Post – Climate migration in Iraq’s south brings cities to crisis – 9/7/22
• The Washington Post – Here are some of the records broken by the United Kingdom – 7/20/2022
• The New York Times – Let’s not pretend planting trees is a permanent climate solution – 6/5/2022
• Nature – Climate change made South Asian heatwave 30 times more likely – 5/23/2022
• Nature – Net zero commitments could limit warming to below 2°C – 4/13/22
• The McGill International Review – Safe bet or safety risk? China’s mixed relationship with coal – 4/2/22
• UN News – Antarctica ‘should not be taken for granted’ scientists declare, amid extreme weather uptick – 4/1/22
• Bloomberg – Antarctica heatwave brings alarming temperature jump – 3/30/22
• CNN Español – La extraordinaria ola de calor en la Antártida, 38 °C por encima de lo normal, podría establecer un récord mundial – 3/29/22
• CNN – Extraordinary Antarctic heatwave, 70 degrees above normal, would likely set a new world record – 3/28/22
• Discover Magazine – Arctic sea ice begins its warm season retreat in worse shape than previously thought – 3/23/22
• Nature – Antarctic sea ice hits lowest minimum on record – 3/11/22
• Axios – Earth’s climate went off the rails in 2021, reports show – 1/15/22
•  Forbes – New findings warn Earth could break key warming barrier in 2023 – 1/14/22
• Bloomberg – Climate change made the last eight years the hottest on record – 1/14/22
•  The Wall Street Journal – 2021 was Earth’s sixth hottest year on record, temperature reports say– 1/13/22
• The Washington Post – The past seven years have been the hottest in recorded history, new data shows – 1/13/22
• The Washington Post – Here’s how hot the Earth has been since you were born – 1/13/22
• Ars Technica – 2021 obeyed physics, was one of warmest years on record – 1/13/22
• Discover Magazine – In 2021, 1.8 billion people experienced a record high annual average temperature – 1/13/22
• Newsweek – 2021 is sixth hottest year on record, scientists studying if temperature rise is speeding up – 1/13/22
• ABC News – The heat stays on: Earth hits 6th warmest year on record– 1/13/22
• The New York Times – We mapped a year of extreme weather – 1/12/22
• The New York Times – 2021 was Earth’s fifth hottest year, scientists say – 1/10/22

2021

Press Release: 10/29/2021 – Berkeley Earth Offers First Publicly Available Country-Specific Warming Projections

• The Los Angeles Times – How climate change supercharges California heatwaves – 10/7/2021
• The Guardian – Climate crisis: Do we need millions of machines sucking CO2 from the air? – 9/24/2021
• The BBC – Climate change: World now sees twice as many days over 50C – 9/13/2021
• The Atlantic – Why 2021 was so hot in the west – 8/26/2021
• The Washington Post – ‘Hard to comprehend’: Experts react to 121 degrees in Canada – 7/1/2021
• ABC News – Climate change may cause historic heat waves more often than once every 1,000 years, experts say – 7/1/2021
• The Guardian – First Thing: officials warn historic heatwave in North American west is just the beginning – 6/30/2021
• The Washington Post – Here’s what’s causing record temperatures in the Pacific Northwest – 6/29/2021
• NBC News – [VIDEO] Northwest heatwave causes blackouts, damage, and health risks – 6/29/2021
• The New York Times – The air quality index explained: what it means and how to stay safe – 6/17/2021
• World Economic Forum – State of the climate: 2021 off to cooler start due to fading La Niña – 6/1/2021
• The Weather Channel India – World No-Tobacco Day: How Breathing in Indian Cities is Equivalent to Smoking Packs of Cigarettes in One Day – 5/30/21
• ABC News Australia – La Nina drives cooler temperatures, high rainfall during Australian summer – 3/2/21
• NBC News Bay Area – Director of climate and energy [Dr. Zeke Hausfather] talks about Texas storms – 2/18/21
• The Washington Post – Climate change upends Lebanon’s wine industry – 2/13/21
• The Wall Street Journal – World’s ice is melting faster than ever, climate scientists say – 1/25/21
• Lifegate – What 2020 taught us about the climate crisis – 1/25/21
• Science Magazine – Global temperatures in 2020 tied record highs – 1/22/21
• Yahoo News – Another world heat record for 2020? Looks like it... – 1/19/21
• National Geographic – These six numbers define the climate challenge in a changing US – 1/19/21
• The Washington Post – 2020 rivals hottest year on record, pushing Earth closer to a critical climate threshold – 1/14/21
• The San Francisco Chronicle – The permanent heatwave – 2020 rivals 2016 for earth’s hottest year on record – 1/14/21
• CBS News – 2020 “effectively tied” for warmest year on record – 1/14/21

Press Release: Berkeley Earth Global Temperature Update: 2020 Was Second Warmest Year Since 1850 – 1/14/21

2020

• Carbon Brief – Analysis: Why the new Met Office temperature record shows faster warming since 1970s – 12/17/20
• CBS News – Temperatures in the arctic are astonishingly warmer than they should be – 11/23/20
• World Economic Forum – State of the Climate: 2020 on course to be the warmest on record – 10/23/2020
• National Geographic – The West Coast had the world’s most polluted cities in September – 9/24/20
• The New York Times – Record wildfires on the west coast are capping a disastrous decade – 9/24/20
• 5280 Magazine – Colorado wildfire smoke has been unprecedented lately. Get used to it. – 9/16/2020
• Energy Institute at Haas – It’s climate change, stupid – 9/14/2020
• CBS News/WWAY CBS3 – Wildfire burning in northern California is the state’s largest on record – 9/11/2020
• Accuweather – Inhaling air pollution from Western wildfires like ‘smoking 25 cigarettes a day’ – 9/10/2020
• The Startup – Predicting Weather Temperature Change Using Machine Learning Models – 8/28/20
• Inside Climate News – The fires may be in California, but the smoke, and it’s health effects, travel across the country – 8/27/2020
• Sacramento Bee – See how Sacramento’s polluted air compares to the smokiest days in the last dozen years – 8/25/2020
• m.live – Impressive data set shows July likely warmest of any month since 1850 worldwide – 8/17/2020
• The Washington Post – Baghdad’s record heat offers glimpse of world’s climate future – 8/12/2020
• World Economic Forum – 2020 set to be first or second warmest year on record – 8/6/2020
• The Hill – Global warming’s impact: not worst-case, but still deadly, if we don’t act – 7/27/20
• Carbon Brief – Why low-end ‘climate sensitivity’ can now be ruled out – 7/22/20
• Cosmos Australia – Heatwave Trends Accelerate Worldwide – 7/8/20
• Nature – Increasing trends in regional heatwaves – 7/3/20
• CBS News – 2020 likely to be the warmest year on record globally – 6/15/20
• The Washington Post – Siberia’s persistent, freakishly mild weather is reverberating around the world – 6/15/20
• USA Today – May 2020 tied for Earth’s hottest May on record, federal scientists report – 6/12/20
• The Weather Channel – Earth just had its record warmest May, multiple analyses found – 6/12/20
• The Washington Post – Parts of Siberia are hotter than Washington DC – 5/22/2020
• The Washington Post – Read The Washington Post stories that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize – 5/4/2020
• Carbon Brief – State of the climate: First quarter of 2020 is second warmest on record – 4/20/2020
• Scientific American – The 2010s Were the Hottest Decade—the 2020s Will Top Them – 1/16/2020
• NASA | Earth Observatory – 2019 Was the Second Warmest Year on Record – 1/16/2020
• Bloomberg – Second Hottest Year on Record Capped Warmest-Ever Decade – 1/15/2020
• MIT Technology Review – Yup, 2019 was the second-hottest year on record – 1/15/2020
• The Washington Post – 2019 capped world’s hottest decade in recorded history – 1/15/2020
• ABC News – Climate change can ‘supercharge’ wildfires in Australia through more extreme heat, drought – 1/6/2020

2019

• Mashable – A disturbing tally of the heat records that broke in 2019 – 12/17/2019
• UC Berkeley | Berkeley News – Early climate modelers got global warming right, new report finds – 12/4/2019
• Science – Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming – 12/4/2019
•   The Washington Post – The simplest of climate models run decades ago accurately projected global warming – 12/4/2019
• Mashable – World’s carbon emissions grew in 2019 to their highest levels ever – 12/4/2019
• The New York Times – See How the World’s Most Polluted Air Compares With Your City’s – 12/2/2019
• The Washington Post – The climate chain reaction that threatens the heart of the Pacific – 11/12/2019
• News 18 India – Clearing the Air: Why Delhi Needs the Odd-Even Scheme to Fight Pollution – 11/12/2019
• The Washington Post – The weather that’s trapping New Delhi beneath a deadly, toxic haze – 11/11/2019
• The Washington Post – The ice used to protect them. Now their island is crumbling into the sea – 10/31/2019
•   The Washington Post – Power Up: Air conditioning the outdoors? Here’s a window into climate change’s intense impact – 10/17/2019
• The Washington Post – Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors – 10/16/2019
• BBC – Hundreds of temperature records broken over summer – 10/9/2019
• The Washington Post – Radical warming in Siberia leaves millions on unstable ground – 10/3/2019
• The Washington Post – Dangerous new hot zones are spreading around the world – 9/11/2019
• The Washington Post – July was Earth’s hottest month since records began, with the globe missing 1 million square miles of sea ice – 8/15/2019
• The Washington Post – Extreme climate change has arrived in America – 8/13/2019
• The Atlantic – Here Comes the Bad Season – 7/19/2019
• BBC – The chart that defines our warming world – 6/21/2019
• The Washington Post – As oceans rapidly warm because of climate change, an urgent need to improve hurricane forecasts – 4/16/2019
• Carbon Brief – Factcheck: What Greenland ice cores say about past and present climate change – 3/5/2019
• The New York Times – It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record – 2/6/2019
• Scientific American – 2018 Was the 4th Warmest Year on Record, Berkeley Group Announces – 1/25/2019
• The Atlantic – Are We Living Through Climate Change’s Worst-Case Scenario? – 1/15/2019
• The New York Times – Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds – 1/10/2019

2018

• Vox – 3 big takeaways from the major new US climate report – 11/24/2018
• Forbes – Why A New Study Says Scientists Should Use Twitter – 11/18/2018
• Carbon Brief – Mapped: How every part of the world has warmed – and could continue to warm – 9/26/2018
• The New York Times – How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born? – 8/30/2018
• CBC News – Worst in the world: Edmonton took dubious honour in air quality rankings – 8/20/2018
• Carbon Brief – State of the climate: 2018 set to be fourth warmest year despite cooler start – 8/1/2018
• High Snobriety – This app tells you how many cigarettes you ‘smoke’ by breathing urban air – 5/3/2018
• Bloomberg – China’s War on Pollution Will Change the World – 3/9/2018
• The Washington Post – Arctic temperatures soar 45 degrees above normal, flooded by extremely mild air on all sides – 2/21/2018