Last month was the warmest January of the registered world, continuing a streak of extreme global temperatures despite a change towards the climate pattern of cooling of the Nina, scientists from the European Union said Thursday.
January extended an extraordinary heat series, in which 18 of the last 19 months saw an average global temperature of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre -industrial times, said the EU Copernic Climate Change Service (C3S) in a MONTHLY BULLETIN.
That was despite the world that changed the El Niño warming pattern, which helped make the warmest year in the world of the world registered, and turning towards its coldest counterpart in the child, which implies the cooling of the Pacific Equatorial Waters, and can stop global temperatures.
“The fact that we are still seeing record temperatures outside the influence of El Niño is a bit surprising,” said Samantha Burges, strategic leader in the European center for medium -sized weather forecasts, which executes the C3S service.
The boy reached its maximum point more than a year ago, Burgess said.
The average global temperature in January was 1.75 ° C higher than in pre -industrial times.
Copernicus evaluates that Nina has not yet developed completely, and the world is currently in neutral conditions between the two phases. Other data models may vary, with American scientists who indicate last month that the conditions of the Nina had formed.
Even if the girl arises completely, Burges said that its cooling effect may not be enough to temporarily stop global temperatures, which are also affected by factors such as extreme heat seen in other oceanic basins and the main driver of climate change: emissions Heat -Tapando greenhouse gases.
“With much, the largest contributing factor for our heating climate is the burning of fossil fuels,” he said.
Berkeley Earth scientists and the United Kingdom’s Meteorological Office have said that 2025 will be the third most registered, most great than 2024 and 2023 due to the change towards the NINA, although uncertainties remain how the phenomenon will develop .
Worldwide, the average sea surface temperatures in January were the second highest recorded for the month, surpassed only by January 2024.
