Climate scientists warn that the severe weather events witnessed recently are occurring decades earlier than models predicted, with the 1.5°C Paris Agreement threshold likely to be broken before 2030. The past year was confirmed as the third hottest on record, marked by “extraordinary” global temperatures and ocean heat uptake. The heat fueled a relentless string of disasters in 2025, including deadly floods in Asia and catastrophic heatwaves that were made significantly more likely by the burning of fossil fuels. Experts state that extreme events originally forecast for the mid-century are already happening today.
Date: January 17, 2026. Source: independent.co