Jakarta, domclub Indonesia
—
2025 is expected to be the year
hottest
second or third in history after 2024. According to the European Union’s Copernicus earth observation program, global temperatures from January to November averaged 1.48 degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial levels.
The findings show that temperature anomalies so far are identical to those recorded in 2023, which was the second warmest year on record after 2024.
World leaders have vowed to prevent the planet from warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.
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Scientists interpret this temperature target as a 30-year average, leaving little hope of achieving the goal.Even though month and year temperature records have exceeded this limit.
“For November, global temperatures were 1.54 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels,” said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus Climate Change Services, quoted from
The Guardian
.
“The three-year average for 2023-2025 is expected to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius for the first time,” he added.
The agency’s monthly report showed that last month was the third warmest November globally, with “significantly” higher temperatures recorded in northern Canada and the Arctic Ocean.
The month also marked a series of extreme weather events, including devastating cyclones and floods that claimed lives and homes in South and Southeast Asia.
Average temperatures have risen sharply due to carbon pollution which has exacerbated extreme weather from heatwaves to heavy rains.
These weather conditions vary according to natural factors, such as El Niño which warms global temperatures in 2023 and 2024, then replaced by La Niña conditions which cool weakly in 2025.
Copernicus found that 2025 tied with 2023 as the second warmest year in recorded history.
“This milestone is not an abstract thing,” Burgess said.
“They reflect the accelerating pace of climate change, and the only way to reduce future temperature rise is to immediately reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” he continued.
Since the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases have continued to rise along with rising average temperatures and the intensity of weather extremes.This remains the case even though the expansion of renewable energy has helped suppress the increase.
Copernicus’ findings are in line with analysis by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) before the Cop30 summit in Brazil last month.The WMO found that the period 2015 to 2025 will be the 11th hottest year in a record of observations dating back to 1850.
“We are not on track to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement,” said World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Secretary General Celeste Saulo.
“Other climate indicators continue to provide early warning [in 2025], and more frequent extreme weather events have a significant global impact on the economy and all aspects of sustainable development,” he added.
(lom/fea)
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