The picture below shows the annual average1 temperature for Eskdalemuir2 in Scotland. Each vertical stripe represents one year from 1914 on the left to 2025 on the right. Blue stripes are relatively cold years and reds are the hot ones. Notice that it’s mostly blue before 2000 and mostly red after that. Nine of the ten hottest years ever recorded at Eskdalemuir were in the years since 2000.
The same pattern recurs for the vast majority of weather stations on Earth.
Almost every long-term record on the planet shows warming, in the last few decades, with the only significant exception being a small number of Antarctic stations3.
You can see this for yourself by using the “show your stripes” website to look at the temperature for hundreds of places across the World going back, in many cases, centuries.
If almost every weather station on Earth shows warming, it’s hard to argue that climate change is not happening.
