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Global warming on track: 2025 will be the third hottest year ever!
The 2026 Copernicus report shows that 2025 was the third warmest year on record, with global warming exceeding 1.5 degrees.
Global warming on track: 2025 will be the third hottest year ever!
The year 2025 will go down in history as the third warmest year on record. The EU climate service Copernicus confirms this with its latest data published in Bonn on January 14, 2026. The global average temperature was 14.97 degrees Celsius, which is only slightly below the record highs of the previous years 2024 and 2023. These two years had temperatures of 1.6 and 1.48 degrees respectively above pre-industrial levels, while 2025 is 1.47 degrees above this reference level. The climate service has found that the Earth has been on average more than 1.5 degrees warmer for three years than in pre-industrial times.
Attentive readers may ask: How are scientists responding to these worrying developments? In this context, Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus climate service, said that the world should prepare for the inevitable exceeding of the 1.5 degree limit and its serious consequences. What is particularly striking is that, for the first time, global temperatures on a three-year average from 2023 to 2025 were more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
Climatic trends and warnings
The report shows that the last eleven years have been the warmest on record. High sea surface temperatures and greenhouse gases are particularly responsible for the extraordinary heat. These developments are also associated with the El Niño weather phenomenon, which, in combination with other ocean variability factors, has been enhanced by climate change. Changes in the amount of aerosols, low clouds and fluctuations in atmospheric circulation could also play a role.
It is important to emphasize that exceeding the 1.5 degree target in the Paris Climate Agreement, while alarming, does not represent an immediate breach of this target. In order to be considered as such, this limit would have to be exceeded over the long term over several years. Nevertheless, the scientists' assessment is clear: a permanent exceedance of this limit set in the Paris Agreement is expected by the end of this decade, which is a decade earlier than originally assumed.
In summary, current data and analyzes reveal a worrying trend. The world appears to be rapidly moving towards the set temperature limit, and the consequences of sustained warming are potentially serious. Looking ahead, the need to address the challenges of climate change becomes increasingly urgent.