News About Climate Change 2022. The year 2022 effectively tied for earth’s 5th warmest year since 1880, and the last 9 consecutive years have been the warmest 9 on record. Climate change amped up weather extremes around the globe, smashing temperature records, sinking river levels to historic lows and raising rainfall to devastating highs.

The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of what’s to come: 2022 was a year of extremes, with moments of historic climate action interspersed with unprecedented climate disasters.