Never before have such significantly higher temperatures been measured in the world than this September, which is an astonishing jump even in the climate crisis. What could be behind it – and why researchers are worried about the winter.
Sometimes even a graphic can make you shudder: when a curve starts to get out of line, moves away from the usual course and just doesn’t want to stop rising. This is what climate researchers around the world have been observing for months. They look in amazement at the curve of the daily or monthly temperature anomaly. It shows how global surface temperatures develop over the course of the year, based on the reference period 1981 to 2010.