The European climate service Copernicus says the world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina and predictions of a slightly less hot year.
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FILE - A snowdrop blooms at Zaryadye park in Moscow, Russia, Jan. 31, 2025, while the temperature has reached 5 degrees Celsius . FILE - A person sits on the pier as ice floats on the Hudson River, Jan. 23, 2025, in New York. By far the biggest driver of record heat is greenhouse gas buildup from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, but the natural contributions to temperature change have not been acting quite as expected, said Samantha Burgess, strategic lead for climate for the European weather agency.
For Americans, news of a record warm January might seem odd given how cold it was. But the U.S. is just a tiny fraction of the planet's surface, and"a much larger area of the planet’s surface was much, much warmer than average,” Burgess said. “I'm confident that this higher rate will continue for at least several years,” Hansen told The Associated Press in an interview. “Over the full year it's going to be nip-and-tuck between 2024 and 2025.”
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