{"id":694874,"date":"2026-01-14T07:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694874\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:13:10","slug":"global-warming-reaches-1-4c-after-third-hottest-year-on-record-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694874\/","title":{"rendered":"Global warming reaches 1.4C after third-hottest year on record \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The threats from climate change, such as more intense heat waves and rising sea levels, increase with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wri.org\/insights\/half-degree-and-world-apart-difference-climate-impacts-between-15c-and-2c-warming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">every tenth of a degree of warming<\/a>. Scientists also warn that passing 1.5C risks triggering so-called tipping points, from rainforest diebacks to ocean circulation collapse, that bring about irreversible and extreme climatic changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In theory, the world could return to 1.5C after crossing it by using technology to remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a scenario known as \u201covershoot.\u201d This technology, however, is not yet available at the scale required.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the 1.5C in the terms of the Paris Agreement around the corner, now we are effectively entering a phase where it will be about managing that overshoot,\u201d Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, told reporters at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s basically inevitable that we will pass that threshold, and it\u2019s up to us to decide how we want to deal with the enhanced and increased higher risk that we will face as a consequence of this,\u201d he said.\u00a0The longer and greater the overshoot, the bigger the risk, he added. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The hottest year \u2014 and the only one so far to exceed the 1.5C threshold \u2014 remains 2024 with 1.6C. However, the Paris Agreement targets refer to long-term trends rather than those lasting a few years, and Buontempo said three different Copernicus models, including five-year averages and 30-year linear trends, showed warming has now reached around 1.4C.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copernicus data shows that 2025 was the third-warmest year on record at 1.47C above pre-industrial levels, just marginally cooler than 2023. That&#8217;s\u00a0despite El Ni\u00f1o, a naturally occurring climate pattern that tends to bring hotter temperatures on top of the human-induced warming, ending in mid-2024 and a cooling La Ni\u00f1a phase emerging late last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The threats from climate change, such as more intense heat waves and rising sea levels, increase with every&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[46332,2311,728,7159,1093,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-694874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-carbon-removal","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-fossil-fuels","12":"tag-public-health","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115892217612190716","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}