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Last month, it was the hottest January, surprising scientists who expected the time cycle of cooling La Niña in the Tropical Pacific Ocean, it slowed down nearly two years of record temperature.
January is classified in the third warmest month globally, with a surface air temperature of 13.23C-1,75 ° C above the pre-industrial average-Copernicus Service Klimats Change, an EU Earth observation agency.
Heating, despite the appearance of La Niña in December, is to consider concern Climate change It accelerates at a time when countries like the US, the largest historical pollutant in the world, withdraw obligations to reduce emissions.
Bill McGuire, Emeritus Professor of Geophysical and Climate Dangers to UCL, said information about January “and amazing and, honestly frightening,” I can’t be doubtful that a dangerous, all-trained climate breakdown arrives.
Samantha Burgess, a strategic leadership for a climate at the European Center for Middle Domesticated Time Forecasts, which oversees Copernicus, said that January “is another surprising moon, continuing record temperatures observed in the past two years, despite the development of La Niña.”
Copernicus has revealed that Europe has experienced its second strongest January ever, despite the below -average temperatures throughout Iceland, the United Kingdom, Ireland, northern France and parts of Scandinavia.
The average marine surface temperature was 20.78C globally, which is the second highest value for a month after January last year. Although the central Equatorial Pacific Ocean became colder, temperatures were “unusually high in many other ocean pools and seas,” scientists said.
Richard Allan, a professor at the Reading University of the UK University, said much of a “global marine surface remained Extremely warm At the beginning of 2025, primarily the result of a heating caused by man. “
He added that natural weather fluctuations from week to week can “cause warmer or cooler conditions over continental areas”, which he said “contributed to unexpected record global temperatures in early 2025”.
The natural phenomenon of time la niña usually results in cooler global temperatures, while temperatures increase during its opposite phase of El Niño warming.
El Niño ended up in May 2024, while delayed weaker la niña conditions In December, he appeared in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, according to the National Ocean and atmosphere Administration.
Earlier this week, James HansenA scientist who sounded an alarm because of climate change in the 1980s, said this year is likely to be similar on average temperatures of 2024, despite La Niña.
Last year was the hottest on the recordGiven that the global average temperature increases 1.5 ° C above the pre -industrial level.
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