Photo: AP“The warming spike observed from 2023 to 2025 has been extreme, and suggests an acceleration in the rate of the Earth’s warming,” Berkeley Earth said in a separate report. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in October warned that breaching 1.5°C was “inevitable,” but the world could limit this period of overshoot by cutting greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible. About 770 million people experienced record-warm annual conditions where they live, while no record-cold annual average was logged anywhere, Berkeley Earth said. The antarctic experienced its warmest year on record while it was the second hottest in the arctic, Copernicus said. The pace of reductions of greenhouse gas emissions slowed in Germany and France.

Source: Taipei Times January 14, 2026 17:27 UTC