Antalya, Türkiye, host city of COP31: view of Konyaaltı beach. Photo: Esginmu, CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons); cropped and resized. File image.
NEW World · 08:11
Berkeley Earth says it is 95% confident 2026 will beat the 2024 record, but Copernicus rates that about 20% likely and WMO says 2026 will be among the four warmest years.
Source: BBC News; Copernicus Climate Change Service; WMO
File photo: Illustrative archival photo: Earth, Apollo 17 (1972); not a 2026 Copernicus temperature map / Harrison Schmitt / Apollo 17 / NASA / public domain; resized and letterboxed / Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Blue_Marble,_AS17-148-22727.jpg
NEW World · 06:11
The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on 6 November that 2026 is virtually certain to finish more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, the second such calendar year after 2024, after the warmest October on record.
Source: Copernicus C3S / ECMWF