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artificially induced climate change Already promoted to the world temperature Reaching a critical new level, 2025 is confirmed as one of the hottest three years For the record, the scientist Announced.
For the first time, the three-year average temperature exceeded the key warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, a key threshold set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Experts warn that staying below this limit is crucial to saving lives and preventing catastrophic environmental damage around the world.
This analysis by World Weather Attribution Researchers was released on Tuesday EuropeOne year later, communities around the world are being severely affected by dangerous extreme events brought about by a warming planet.
temperature despite the existence NinaOccasional natural cooling of Pacific waters affects weather around the world. Researchers note that the continued burning of fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and coal) releases planet-warming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
“If we don’t stop burning fossil fuels very, very, very, very quickly, it’s going to be very difficult to achieve our warming goals,” Friedrich Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London, co-founder of World Weather Attribution, told The Associated Press. “The science is getting clearer.”
Extreme cases in 2025
Extreme weather events kill thousands of people and cause billions of dollars in damage each year.
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons the scientist There will be 157 of the worst extreme weather events identified in 2025, meaning they meet criteria such as killing more than 100 people, affecting more than half the region’s population, or declaring a state of emergency. They carefully analyzed 22 of them.
These include dangerous heat waves, which WWA says will be the world’s deadliest extreme weather event in 2025. Researchers say some of the 2025 heat waves they studied are 10 times more likely than a decade ago due to climate change.
“The heat waves we observed this year are fairly common events in today’s climate, but they would be nearly impossible to occur without human-induced climate change,” Otto said. “That makes a big difference.”
Meanwhile, a prolonged drought has sparked wildfires that have scorched Greece and Turkey. Heavy rains and flooding in Mexico have left dozens dead and many missing. Super Typhoon Fenghuang hits the Philippines, forcing more than one million people to evacuate. Monsoon rains have battered India, triggering floods and landslides.
WWA said increasingly frequent and severe extreme events threaten the ability of millions of people around the world to cope with and adapt to these events. warntime and resources, scientists call it the “limit of adaptation.” The report takes Hurricane Melissa as an example: the storm’s intensity was so fast that it made prediction and planning more difficult, and it hit Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti hard, leaving these small island countries unable to cope with and deal with their huge losses and damage.
Global climate talks reach deadlock
United Nations climate talks in Brazil this November ended without any clear plan to transition away from fossil fuels, and despite promises of more money to help countries adapt to climate change, they will need more time to do so.
Officials, scientists and analysts acknowledge that the planet will warm by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), but some say reversing the trend is still possible.
However, different countries have made varying degrees of progress.
China It is rapidly deploying renewable energy, including solar and wind, but it also continues to invest in coal. While increasingly frequent extreme weather has sparked calls for climate action across Europe, some countries say it limits economic growth. Meanwhile, in the United States, the Trump administration has abandoned clean energy policies in favor of measures to support coal, oil and natural gas.
“The geopolitical weather this year has been very gloomy, with many policymakers very clearly enacting policies for the benefit of the fossil fuel industry rather than for the benefit of their own people,” Otto said. “People have to deal with a lot of misinformation and disinformation.”
Andrew Kruczkiewicz, a senior fellow at Columbia University’s Climate Institute who is not involved in WWA’s work, said some places are experiencing unprecedented disasters, with extreme events intensifying faster and becoming more complex. This requires early warning and new approaches to response and recovery, he said.
“Globally, progress is being made,” he added, “but we must do more.”