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Last month was the hottest scientist of a record January, and an incredible scientist who hoped that the weather cycle of the tropical Pacific Cooled La Niña would slow down record temperatures for almost two years.
January ranks as the third hottest month in the world, with surface temperatures above 13.23C (1.75C above pre-industrial average), according to Copernicus Climate Change Services, the EU's Earth Observation Agency.
Warming has accelerated climate change as countries like the United States, the world's largest historic polluter, recoil their commitment to reducing emissions despite La Niña's emergence in December It is set to promote concerns.
Bill McGuire, professor emeritus of geophysics and climate risks at UCL, said the January data was “surprising and frankly scary,” adding that “Valencia's flood and eschatological Based on the wildfires in Los Angeles, I don't think I'm out there. There's no doubt that a dangerous, all-transparent climate collapse has arrived. But emissions continue to rise. Masu.”
Samantha Burgess is the strategic climate lead for the European Medium-Distance Weather Forecast Centre, which oversees Copernicus, and January said that despite La Niña's development, “continuing the record temperatures observed over the past two years.” “It's.”
Copernicus has discovered that Europe has experienced the second hottest January to date despite sub-average temperatures in Iceland, the UK, Ireland, Northern France and parts of Scandinavia.
The global average sea surface temperature was 20.78c, the second highest on record since January last year. The Central Equatorial Pacific Ocean was getting cooler, but temperatures were “unusually high on many other seabeds and oceans,” scientists said.
“Many of the world's ocean surfaces have remained significantly warm in early 2025, primarily the result of human warming,” said Richard Allan, a professor of climate science at the UK's Reading University.
He said that weekly changes in natural weather “can cause warm or cold conditions in continental regions.”
Naturally occurring La Niña weather phenomenon usually causes temperatures to drop across the globe, while the opposite is the El Niño warming stage causes temperatures to rise.
El Niño ended in May 2024, but La Niña was slow in the equatorial Pacific in December, according to the National Maritime and Atmospheric Administration.
Earlier this week, James Hansen, a scientist who is wary of climate change in the 1980s, said this year is likely to have an average temperature similar to 2024 despite La Niña.
Last year was the hottest on record, with global average temperatures rising 1.5c above pre-industrial levels.
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