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Scientists said climate change worsened by human behavior could make 2025 one of the three hottest years on record.
This was also the first time that the three-year temperature average exceeded the prescribed limit. 2015 paris agreement to limit warming beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times. Experts say that keeping the Earth below that limit could cause this Save lives and prevent catastrophic environmental destruction Worldwide.
World Weather Attribution researchers’ analysis released Tuesday in Europe comes a year after People around the world were criticized Because of the dangerous extremes brought about by a warming planet.
Temperatures remain high despite the presence of La Niña, an occasional natural cooling of Pacific Ocean waters that affects weather around the world. The researchers cited the continued burning of fossil fuels – oil, gas and coal – which send planet-warming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
“If we don’t stop burning fossil fuels very, very, very, very soon, it’s going to be very hard to maintain that warming goal,” Frederick Otto, co-founder of World Weather Attribution and a climate scientist at Imperial College London, told The Associated Press. “The science is becoming increasingly clear.”
peak in 2025
Extreme weather events kill thousands of people and cause billions of dollars in damage annually.
WWA scientists identified 157 extreme weather events in 2025 as the most severe, meaning they meet criteria such as causing more than 100 deaths, affecting more than half the region’s population or declaring a state of emergency. Of these, he analyzed 22 in detail.
that also includes dangerous heat wavesWhich WWA called the world’s deadliest extreme weather events in 2025. The researchers said the heat waves they studied in 2025 were 10 times more likely to occur due to climate change than a decade earlier.
“The heat waves we have seen this year are fairly common occurrences in our climate today, but they would have been almost impossible to occur without human-induced climate change,” Otto said. “It makes a huge difference.”
Meanwhile, prolonged drought contributed to Wildfires that scorched Greece and Turkey, Torrential rains and floods in Mexico Dozens of people died and many went missing. Super Typhoon Fung-Wong took the Philippines to taskMore than one million people were forced to flee. monsoon rain India is plagued by floods and landslides.
WWA said increasing and severe extremes threaten the ability of millions of people around the world to respond and adapt to those events with adequate warning, time and resources, at what scientists call “the limits of adaptation.” The report pointed to Hurricane Melissa as an example: intensified so fast This made forecasting and planning more difficult, and Attacked Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti So severely that it left small island nations unable to respond and handle its immense loss and damage.
Global climate talks fade away
UN climate talks in Brazil in November this year ended without any clear plan move away from fossil fuelsAnd although more money was promised to help countries adapt to climate change, it will take longer for them to do so.
Officers, Scientists and Analysts it is accepted the earth is warming will exceed limits 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit), although some say it is possible to reverse this trend.
Yet different nations are seeing different levels of progress.
is china Rapid deployment of renewable energy That includes solar and wind power – but it also continues to invest in coal. However, ever-increasing extreme weather has prompted calls for climate action across Europe, Some countries say this limits economic growthMeanwhile, in America The Trump administration has torn the country apart From clean-energy policy in favor of measures that support coal, oil and gas.
“The geopolitical weather is very bad this year and many policymakers are very clearly making policies in the interests of the fossil fuel industry rather than the populations of their countries,” Otto said. “And we have a tremendous amount of misinformation and disinformation that people have to deal with.”
Andrew Kruczkiewicz, a senior researcher at the Columbia University Climate School who was not involved in WWA’s work, said disasters are being seen in places they are not used to, extreme events are increasing rapidly and they are becoming more complex. This requires earlier warnings and new approaches to response and recovery, he said.
“Progress is being made globally, but we must do more,” he said.