Brussels:
January 2025 was the hottest registered worldwide, with the average surface temperature 0.79 degrees Celsius above the average of 1991-2000 January, the EU-financeed Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported Thursday.
The temperature was 1.75 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, while the average temperature over the European country rose 2.51 degrees above the average of 1991-2000 January.
“Outside of Europe, the temperatures were most above northeast and northwest -Canada, Alaska and Siberia. They were also above average above South -America, Africa and a large part of Australia and Antarctica,” said it in a report.
The average sea surface temperature between 60 degrees north and 60 degrees south reached 20.78 degrees Celsius, the second highest level of January on record, behind January 2024.
“January 2025 is another surprising month, which will continue the record temperatures in the last two years, despite the temporary cooling effect of La Nina circumstances in the tropical Pacific,” said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the C3S.
According to the report, Arctic Sea Ice reached the lowest degree for January, with a six percent measurement below the average, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Last month, C3S confirmed that 2024 was the first calendar year in which the average global temperature exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels exceeding a critical threshold established by the Paris Agreement.
The agreement is intended to limit global warming to far below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, with a striving to close it at 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
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