Upper 40s to middle 50s in early January? Early January used to be some arctic blasts. Looks like climate change is really here. This has happened in decades, not centuries or millennia. The rise in temperatures continues as we diddle around and do nothing. Republicans make it worse as their pro-fossil fuel policies exacerbate the warming.
Climate change worsened by human behaviour made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said.
It was also the first time that the three-year temperature average broke through the threshold set in the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting warming to no more than 1.5 C since preindustrial times. Experts say that keeping the Earth below that limit could save lives and prevent catastrophic environmental destruction around the globe.
The analysis from World Weather Attribution researchers, released Tuesday in Europe, came after a year when people around the world were slammed by the dangerous extremes brought on by a warming planet.
Temperatures remained high despite the presence of a La Niña, the occasional natural cooling of Pacific Ocean waters that influences weather worldwide. Researchers cited the continued burning of fossil fuels — oil, gas and coal — that send planet-warming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
“If we don’t stop burning fossil fuels very, very quickly, very soon, it will be very hard to keep that goal” of warming, Friederike Otto, co-founder of World Weather Attribution (WWA) and an Imperial College London climate scientist, told The Associated Press.
“The science is increasingly clear.”
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Thank you for profiling this existential threat.
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