It’s official: For the past 12 months, the Earth was 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than in preindustrial times, scientists said Thursday, crossing a critical barrier into temperatures never experienced by human civilizations.

Earth crossed 1.5C of warming this year. Here’s what to know.

The world still hasn’t missed its climate goal — yet.

I can't lie. I'm mildly concerned about this.

Oh goody, we're ahead of schedule. Nothing like overachieving in a doom spiral.

What a fun, sexy timeline we live in.

@xkcd.com needs to update the infographic 😢

Christ on a corn dog, use Imperial units when trying to get Americans to understand climate change. That’s nearly 3°F higher.

But climate change isn't real, right? Right?

You guys are going to get in trouble for covering this story truthfully.

smoke em while ya got em