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Climate change danger: 2025 threatens to be the hottest year on record!
The article highlights the alarming climate data for 2023 and 2025, with a focus on the upcoming COP30 in Brazil.
Climate change danger: 2025 threatens to be the hottest year on record!
The latest data from the EU climate change service Copernicus shows alarming trends in global warming. According to recent reports, 2025 could be one of the three hottest years on record. This development is the result of a three-year trend that means global temperatures are expected to be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. This would be the first time such a three-year period exceeds this critical threshold and could have serious consequences for the climate system. Heise Online reports that the average temperature worldwide in October 2023 was 15.14 degrees, which is 1.55 degrees above the level from 1850 to 1900 corresponds.
In October 2023, this month was the third warmest, with a deviation of 0.7 degrees above the average for the years 1991 to 2020. The temperature increases were particularly strong in the polar regions, such as northeast Canada and East Antarctica, where the changes are most pronounced. In Europe, the average temperature was 10.19 degrees, which also remained above the long-term average. The reports underline the urgency of action, as Samantha Burgess, strategic director for climate, emphasizes.
Global consequences and the need for action
The warning sounds from climate science are unmistakable: Exceeding the 1.5 degree limit can cause permanent damage and increase the frequency of weather disasters. These consequences are in stark contrast to the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Climate scientists are urgently calling on governments to act now. 2025 is expected to be one of the warmest years, after 2024 and 2023, which could further worsen the state of our climate. [Die Zeit](https://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2025-11/ Average-temperature-climate-change-pariser-climate-accord) addresses the need for immediate action to combat the climate crisis.
A crucial forum for global climate policy will be the upcoming World Climate Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, which begins next Monday. Tens of thousands of participants from around 200 countries are expected there to discuss solutions to the increasingly critical situation. UN Secretary-General António Guterres expresses concern about the progress made so far and calls on the international community to make a radical change of course in order to curb global warming. [Tagesschau](https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/ Amerika/weltklimakonzept-belem-100.html) reports that Guterres is demanding clear steps, including an immediate halt to new coal-fired power plants and fossil fuel projects.
Politics in Germany is also becoming increasingly active. The Bundestag has once again confirmed that Germany wants to become climate neutral by 2045. This objective requires effective measures in order to actually make a contribution to combating climate change. It remains to be seen what approaches the states will take at the upcoming conference to jointly overcome the challenges of global warming.