Posted on 9 August 2026 by BaerbelW

In April 2026 we published a guest blog post by John Lang in which he introduced his "Climate Trunk" graphics project and website. Since then, he has been adding one graphic per week and plans to keep going for about 2 years rounding out the big picture of human-caused climate change graphic by graphic. In this blog post we'll show-case the graphics related to impacts and will keep adding more as they get published.

How climate change is affecting people, ecosystems and the natural world.

#15 - Loading the Heat Dice

Global temperatures are rising fast. The long-term trend is unequivocal: Earth has heated by around 1.3°C since the late 19th century – with most of that increase coming recently.

One-in-50-year extreme heat events are becoming more and more routine.

#29 - When El Niño Turns Up the Heat

El Niño reshuffles heat across the Pacific, weakening trade winds and allowing warm water to spread eastwards. It releases more heat into the atmosphere, with impacts on weather felt thousands of kilometres away. 

This year’s Super El Niño could be the strongest on record, temporarily adding about 0.3°C to global temperatures. It’s natural variability on top of an already much hotter world.

El Niño is back – and this one's a whopper. What is it?

... to be continued.

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