2025 Ranked As One of World's Hottest Years Due to Human-Made Climate Crisis

"A new analysis of the world's climate in 2025 finds that this year was one of the three hottest ever recorded, demonstrating that the threat posed by the human-made climate crisis is not going away anytime soon. The analysis by World Weather Attribution (WWA), an organization that examines the likelihood that the climate crisis played a role in severe weather events,"

"Temperatures remained high this year, despite the presence of the La Niña weather phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean, which typically cools those waters whenever it occurs. Overall, the WWA report published on Tuesday documented 157 extreme weather events throughout 2025, defined as an event that either causes more than 100 deaths in a given area, detrimentally affects more than half that area's population, or results in a state of emergency being declared."

2025 ranked among the three hottest years on record, reflecting persistent human-caused global warming. Global temperatures exceeded the 1.5 degrees Celsius increase threshold over the past three years. Temperatures remained high despite a La Niña event, which normally cools Pacific waters. There were 157 extreme weather events in 2025 meeting criteria of high fatalities, major population impact, or declared states of emergency. Heat waves accounted for nearly a third of extreme events, and the climate crisis made heat waves about ten times more likely than a decade ago. Human influence is the primary driver of these increased risks.

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