The abnormal temperature persists, despite climatologists' expectations of a decrease.
The record warm January 2025 has caused concern among climatologists. Citing monitoring, climate scientists have shown a series of unprecedented temperature highs and said that the global average air temperature in January was the highest on record.
The Guardian reports this, citing observations by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
“January 2025 was a record-breaking month for warmth,” said Samantha Bygess, strategic manager of climate at the European Centre.
This is the 18th month in the past 19 months when the global average temperature has exceeded pre-industrial levels by more than 1.5°C.
Under the Paris Climate Agreement, signatory countries committed to preventing the global annual temperature increase from rising by 1.5°C. Last year, the figures reached that level but did not exceed it.
Climatologists had expected the temperature anomalies to subside after the regular El Niño phenomenon began to wane. Instead, a cooling phase called La Niña was expected to begin.
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Climatologists do not see a cooling effect, or at least a temporary decrease in high global temperatures. At the same time, they expect the influence of the La Niña phenomenon (an oceanic and atmospheric phenomenon that is a colder analogue of El Niño – extreme values of water temperature and atmospheric pressure, lasting about six months – ed.) to be weak, and temperatures in the equatorial parts of the Pacific Ocean indicate a slowdown and suspension of the cooling process.
They also noted that in January 2025, sea ice in the Arctic reached its minimum level. Sea surface temperatures were very high in many basins. According to scientists, January's figures were the second highest on record.
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Scientists predict that temperatures will remain just as high in 2025. And that, as they say, is “a little confusing.”
Scientists agree that long-term global warming is caused by fossil fuel burning and climate variability.
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One hypothesis scientists have about the global warming process is that the transition to cleaner fossil fuels has accelerated warming by reducing sulfur emissions, which makes clouds more reflective of sunlight.
In addition to weather station data, which goes back to 1940, scientists use other climate data. We are talking about ice cores (samples in the form of cylindrical columns), tree rings and coral skeletons, which prove that the current period is probably the warmest on the planet in the last 125 thousand years.
Recall that Ukrainian forecasters also talked about the weather, in particular, in our country, namely – why winters in Ukraine have become warm and where the snow has gone.
▶ On the TSN YouTube channel, you can watch the video at this link: SNOW – SHORTAGE! The weather is preparing new surprises in Ukraine!
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