The graph shows spikes and drops in temperature over the past 9,500 years, charting how much higher or lower each year’s temperatures are than the average temperature over the entire time period.

The Associated Press reported on stories using an out-of-context graph from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to falsely claim that the Earth's climate is cooling, not warming.

Global temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels are correlated. However, temperatures fluctuate due to natural variability even as they trend upward ...

That greater concentration of atmospheric CO2, countless studies have shown, results in what is known as the greenhouse effect, causing global temperatures to rise.

The diagram below, which is based on a chart created by Japanese physicist Ukichiro Nakaya, illustrates how atmospheric temperature and humidity can impact the growth of ice crystals into snowflakes.

The claim: Post implies moon missions impossible because of Earth's atmospheric temperatures A Nov. 12, 2023, Instagram post (direct link, archive link) suggests that missions to the moon are ...

It was surprising, really surprising to me,” said Benjamin Santer, a climate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, “that we could have identified with high confidence a human-caused ...

The graph shows spikes and drops in temperature over the past 9,500 years, charting how much higher or lower each year’s temperatures are than the average temperature over the entire time period.