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Last month was the most important month of January ever, as the sudden scientists who expected the NIñA weather cycle in the orbital Pacific Ocean were nearly two years of high temperatures.
January was ranked as the third most severe month in the world, with a surface air temperature of 13.23 ° C -1.75 ° C above average before industry-according to the Climate Change Service in Copernicus, the Earth Control Agency in the European Union.
The warming, despite the appearance of Nenia in December Climate It is accelerating as countries like the United States, the largest historical pollutant in the world, are accelerating the obligations to reduce emissions.
Bill McGoyer, a professor of geophysical and climate risks at UCL, said that January data were “amazing and frankly,” adding: “On the basis of Valencia floods and Los Angeles fires in Los Angeles, the salary is any doubt that the collapse of the dangerous climate, and the comprehensive music has arrived. That is still emissions. “
“Another surprising month, continuing record temperatures observed over the past two years, despite the development of La Niña,” said Samantha Borges, a climate strategy at the European Center for Medium Range weather forecast, which oversees Copernicus.
Copernicus found that Europe has witnessed the second best in January, despite less temperatures than average across Iceland, the United Kingdom, Ireland, northern France and parts of Scandinavia.
The average sea surface temperature in the world was 20.78 ° C, which is the second highest value in the record for the month after January last year. Although the central Pacific Ocean has become cooler, the temperatures were “unusually high in many other ocean ponds and conditions,” said scientists.
Richard Alan, professor of climate science at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, said that many of the “world surface remained Significant warm In early 2025, in the first place as a result of the pre -warming of man. “
He added that natural weather fluctuations from a week to a week can “cause warmer or more cold conditions on the continental areas,” he said, “He contributed to the unexpected global temperatures at the beginning of 2025.”
The ritual phenomenon that occurs naturally at cooler global temperatures usually leads, while temperatures rise during the warming stage in the phenomenon of Nenio.
Nino ended in May 2024, while Delayed circumstances of the weaker Nineia It appeared in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in December, according to the National Oceanic Administration and Air Country.
Earlier this week, James HansenThe scientist who seemed to be alert about climate change in the 1980s, this year is likely to have a similar average temperature until 2024, despite Ninea.
It was last year The heat on the recordWith an average global temperature 1.5C higher than pre -industry levels.
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