We focus a lot on global average temperatures, but this tends to mask the real local impacts that climate change is having. The land – where all of us live – is warming about 40% faster than the global average, and high latitude regions are warming even faster.

Here we see that much of the world set a maximum monthly TMax temperature in the 2000s, 2010s or 2020s. There are a few regions – central North America, central and southern Africa, western India, etc. – that saw records set earlier, but this is not unexpected due to regional temperature variability (e.g. weather).

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