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Last month, the hottest January was with surprising scientists who expected the cooling weather cycle of La Niña in the tropical Pacific to slowing down the record for almost two years.
In January in January, the most third-party month worldwide with a surface air temperature of 13.23 ° C-1.75 ° C above the pre-industrial one on average the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the EU End End End Esbobication Agency.
The warming is despite the development of La Niña in December to fuel concerns Climate change Accelerates the commitments to reduce emissions at a time when countries like the USA, the world’s largest historical dirt.
Bill McGuire, emeritus professor of geophysical and climatic dangers to the UCL, they said an doubt that dangerous, ubiquitous climate degrees have arrived. Nevertheless, emissions continue to rise. “
Samantha Burgess, strategic director of the climate in the European Center for Weather forecasts with a medium -sized range that Copernicus monitors, said that January was “another surprising month and the record temperatures observed in the past two years despite the development of La Niña”.
Copernicus found that despite below average temperatures in Iceland, Great Britain, Ireland, Northern France and parts of Scandinavia, Europe had experienced its second -haired January.
The average marine surface temperature was 20.78 ° C worldwide, the second highest value that records the month after January last year. Although the central equatorial pacific had become cooler, the temperatures in many other ocean basins and seas were “unusually high”, the scientists said.
Richard Allan, professor of climate science at the University of Reading in Great Britain, said Remarkably warm At the beginning of 2025, mainly a result of a warming caused by humans ”.
He added that natural weather fluctuations can cause “warmer or colder conditions over continental areas from week to week”, which said that “the record contributed to unexpected global temperatures at the beginning of 2025”.
The naturally occurring weather phenomenon of La Niña typically leads to cooler global temperatures, while the temperatures increase during its opposite phase of El Niño heating.
El Niño ended in May 2024 during Delayed weaker La Niña conditions According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the equatorial Pacific appeared in December.
Early this week, James HansenThe scientist, who sounded the alarm over climate change in the 1980s, said that despite La Niña, this year would probably be a similar average temperature by 2024.
Last year was that Hottest producesWith the global average temperature, 1.5 ° C increases to pre -industrial level.
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