Jan. 2025 is hottest start to a year on record

January breaks another heat record despite hopes La Niña would slow global warming
The world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, leaving scientists shocked. It was hoped that the La Niña weather which began in the same month would get 2025 off to a cooler start than 2023 and 2024,
January 2025 hottest on record despite US cold and La Niña
La Niña and record cold temperatures in the U.S. should have made Earth cooler, but January 2025 was still the hottest on record, with an average global warming of 3.15 F (1.75 C) above pre-industrial levels.
January 2025 was hottest January on record despite factors making that less likely
The world set yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly U.S., a cooling La Nina​​ and predictions of a slightly less hot 2025, the European climate service Copernicus says.
January was the hottest on record despite expected cooling
Despite a predicted downturn in temperatures after several record-breaking years, a reduction in coal burning may have had an unexpected impact.
January 2025 Breaks Records As The Hottest In History
Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis, reports that January was the hottest in recorded history, according to NASA. Despite hopes for slowing climate change, insufficient progress in green energy and government policies has kept global temperatures rising.
January 2025 sets new record as hottest January globally
Over the last 19 months, 18 have seen global average surface temperatures at least 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, continuing a concerning trend of record-breaking temperatures.
World hits record heat in January 2025
Last month was the world's warmest January on record, continuing a streak of extreme global temperatures despite expectations that cooler La Nina conditions might quell a streak of record-breaking global temperatures,
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