1880Global mean surface anomaly, by decade2026

DEGREES

The climate report
Issue 31 · July 2026

+1.6°

above pre-industrial, twelve-month mean

The year the target became a benchmark

1.5 was a ceiling. Now it's a datum line. What the overshoot decade demands of grids, crops and coastlines.

Also inside

08 — The grid that ran backwards

22 — Insurance retreats the map

37 — Enhanced weathering, audited