Climate 2025 is likely to be one of the three hottest years on record
The year 2025 is still on course to be one of the three hottest years on record. It is currently in second place behind 2024 with 2023, according to the EU climate change service Copernicus in its monthly report.
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At 14.02 degrees, the past month was also the third warmest November ever recorded, with particularly high temperatures in the Arctic Ocean, for example.
Temperatures in November were therefore 1.54 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial age and thus above the 1.5 degrees targeted in the Paris climate protection agreement. As the researchers write, the year 2025 is unlikely to break the 1.5 degree barrier. However, the average temperatures for the years 2023 to 2025 will. This would be the first time for a three-year period.
"Increasing pace of climate change"
"These are not just abstract milestones," said Samantha Burgess, Strategic Lead for Climate, according to the press release. "They reflect the accelerating pace of climate change, and the only way to mitigate future temperature rises is to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
For Europe, it was the fifth hottest November on record with an average of 5.74 degrees. While temperatures in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Turkey were unusually high, it was rather cool in Scandinavia and southern Germany. Only in three previous autumns have temperatures in Europe been as high as this year.
