Despite the launch of the excellent Climate Pulse web application by the ECMWFECMWF The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts is an independent intergovernmental organisation supported by most of the nations of Europe. It is based at three sites: Shinfield Park, Reading, United Kingdom; Bologna, Italy; and Bonn, Germany. It operates one of the largest supercomputer complexes in Europe and the world's largest archive of numerical weather prediction data., never daunted, I’ve now adjusted my own application global temperature program to download daily global data directly from their site as a CSVCSV A data file using Comma Separated Variable format. file, and you can see the results in the graph above. Although global temps are now lower than they were in early February, they are still well above the +1.5°C IPCCIPCC The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations responsible for advancing knowledge on human-induced climate change. It was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, and later endorsed by United Nations General Assembly. threshold. In fact they’ve been above +1.5°C for most of the last year, and on a number of days they’ve even exceeded +2°C.
So why do we hear so little news about it in the media?