January Summer Records, Smashes Stunning Scientists

Last month was the hottest January on the record, blitzing the last high and stunning climatic scientists, who expected cooler La Nina situations, finally began to start the long -running summer streak.

Copernicus Climate Change Service stated that January was 1.75C Hotter compared to pre-industrial times, which expands frequent runs of historic higher more than 2023 and 2024, as human-immunized greenhouse emissions heat the planet.

Climate scientists expected this extraordinary mantra to decrease after a warming E -Nino incident in January 2024 and the circumstances gradually moved to a cooling La Nina phase.

But the heat has since been recorded at records or near-ridden levels, which increases the debate among scientists whether other factors can warming to the top ends of expectations.

Scientists have warned that each fraction of a degree of warming increases the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events such as heat waves, heavy rainfall and drought.

There was 0.09c Hotter compared to the previous high of January 2024 – a “large -sized margin” in terms of global temperature, Julian Nicholas said, Julian Nicholas, a climate scientist of Copernicus, said.

“This is what it is a surprise to it … you are not looking at this cooling effect, or at least temporary brakes, at global temperatures, which we were expecting to see,” he told the AFP.

Stephen Rahmstorf of Potsdam University said this was the first time when the temperature recorded during a la Nina period was above a predecessor E Nino.

“This is a matter of serious concern – in the last sixty years, all twenty -five La Nina has been cooler compared to the surrounding years,” he said.

Weak la neena

La Nina is expected to weaken this year and Copernicus stated that the temperature in parts of the equatorial Pacific Ocean suggested a slow or stalling of the temperature “cooling phenomenon”.

Nicholas said that it could disappear completely by March.

Last month, Copernicus stated that the global temperature during 2023 and 2024 was first exceeding 1.5 ° C for the first time.

It did not form a permanent violation of the long-term 1.5C warming target under the Paris Climate Agreement-but a clear indication was that the boundary was being tested.

Overall, 2025 is not expected to follow 2023 and 2024 in history books: Scientists estimate that it will rank as the third most hot year so far.

Copernicus stated that it would closely monitor the sea temperature in 2025 as to how the climate can behave.

The oceans are an important climate regulator and carbon sinks, and cooler waters can absorb higher amounts from the atmosphere, helping to reduce air temperature.

They also store 90 percent of the additional heat trapped by humanity of greenhouse gases.

“This summer is bound to revive from time to time,” Nicholas said.

“I think this is also one of the questions – is this happening in the last few years?”

Sea surface temperature in 2023 and 2024 was exceptionally warm, and Copernicus stated that the reading record was the second largest on the reading record in January.

Nicholas said, “This is the thing that is a little surprising – why they live so hot.”

Open question

Bill McGire, a climate scientist at University College London, said it was “surprising and clearly terrible” that January La Nina remained at a record high.

Joel Hirchi from the UK’s National Oceanography Center warned against much reading in the same month’s data, stating that the record heat was seen after the El Nino stages even after the introduction of La Nina.

Scientists are unanimous that burning of fossil fuels operates largely long -term global warming, and that natural climate variability can also affect temperature from one year to next.

But a natural warming cycle like El Nino could not explain what happened in the atmosphere and the seas, and the north was being asked elsewhere.

One theory is that a global change for cleaner shipping fuel in 2020 accelerates warming by reducing sulfur emissions that reflects clouds like more mirrors and sunshine.

In December, a colleague-reviewed paper noticed whether the decrease in low-mounted clouds had allowed over the heat to reach the Earth’s surface.

Robert Watard, a leading scientist at the UN climate expert panel IPCC, said, “These are the routes that should be taken seriously and should be open.”

The EU monitor uses billions of measurements from satellites, ships, planes and weather stations to help its climatic calculations.

Its records go back in 1940, but other sources of climate data- such as snow core, tree ring and moong skeletal- see scientists to expand their conclusions using evidence in the past.

Scientists say the current period is likely to have the hottest for the last 125,000 years.

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