Temperature Gallery

The instrumental temperature record of the last 25 years, showing monthly variations in the global average and the effects of El Nino on temperature variability.

Changes in lower atmosphere temperatures as determined by satellites and their comparison to the instrumental record for the same period.

The full instrumental temperature record of the last 150 years, showing the rise in global temperatures during the last century.

Ten reconstructions of temperature variations during the last 1000 years. The Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age are shown at the period when they are proposed to have occured.

Same reconstructions with the records extended to the last 2000 years when available.

Temperature changes during the Holocene as recorded at 8 high resolution, long-duration sites around the globe and their average.

Changes in Antarctic temperature and ice volume during the last four glacial/interglacial cycles

Long history of the ice age and changes in Antarctic climate over the last five million years.

Climate change during the last 65 million years.

Climate change during the last 540 million years. This covers nearly the entire history of multi-cellular organisms.