“January broke the temperature record despite the expectation of cooling from La-Ninisichenia in 2024 became the hottest in the history of observations, exceeding pre-industrial performance by 1.75 ° C. The phenomenon of La-Nigna was weaker than the forecasts and could not restrain the growth of global temperatures.”, – WRITE ON: Unn.ua
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The service stated on Thursday that January was 1.75 ° C hotter than in pre -industrial times, continuing a stable series of historical maxima in 2023 and 2024, against the background of how greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity, they are raising temperature.
Climatologists expected that this exceptional period would end after the warming of Eln-Ninuo reached a peak in January 2024, and the conditions would gradually move into the opposite, cooling phase of La-Ninia.
But since then, the heat has been kept at record or close to record levels, causing disputes among scientists about what factors can lead to an increase in temperature to the upper limit of expectations.
“That’s what makes it a little unexpected … You do not see this cooling effect or at least temporary inhibition of the global temperature we expected to see,” said Julien Nicholas, a climatologist from Copernicus, AFP agency.
La-nigna is expected to be weak and Copernicus has stated that the predominant temperatures in the equatorial Pacific ocean indicate “slowing or stopping” motion to the phenomenon of cooling.
Nicholas said she could completely disappear until March.
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Copernicus reported that in January, the Arctic Sea Ice reached a monthly record low, almost equalizing in 2018. The analysis conducted in the United States this week put it in the second place in the lowest in this data set.
In general, 2025 is expected to be history after 2023 and 2024: scientists predict that it will be the third hottest year.
Copernicus stated that he would closely monitor the ocean temperature during 2025 to get hints about how the climate could behave.
Scientists say that the period that is now experienced is probably the warmest period that the Earth has experienced in the last 125,000 years.
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Last month, Copernicus stated that global temperatures, which were averaged in 2023 and 2024, first exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Scientists warn that each proportion of a degree of warming above 1.5 ° C increases the intensity and frequency of extreme weather phenomena, such as heat waves, heavy rainfall and drought.