{"id":21657,"date":"2025-02-06T02:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21657"},"modified":"2025-02-06T03:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T03:25:43","slug":"january-was-hottest-january-on-record-scientists-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21657","title":{"rendered":"January Was Hottest January on Record, Scientists Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earth\u2019s prolonged streak of abnormal heat continued into 2025 despite the arrival of La Ni\u00f1a ocean conditions, which typically bring cooler temperatures.<\/p>\n

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Even as much of the United States shivered under frigid conditions last month<\/a>, the planet as a whole had its warmest January on record, scientists said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The warmth came as something of a surprise to climate researchers. It occurred during La Ni\u00f1a conditions in the Pacific Ocean, which tend to lower the globe\u2019s average temperature, at least temporarily.<\/p>\n

Earth\u2019s surface has now been so warm<\/a> for so much of the past two years that scientists are examining whether something else in the planet\u2019s chemistry might have changed, something that is boosting temperatures beyond what carbon emissions alone can explain.<\/p>\n

Those emissions, the byproduct of burning coal, gas and oil, remain the main driver of global warming, which reached record levels in both 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s because of La Ni\u00f1a that scientists expected this year to be slightly cooler than the past two years, both of which experienced the opposite pattern, El Ni\u00f1o. The waters of the eastern tropical Pacific oscillate between El Ni\u00f1o and La Ni\u00f1a conditions, influencing weather worldwide by changing the balance between heat in the ocean and heat in the air.<\/p>\n

But a host of other factors figure into global temperatures as well. At the moment, chances aren\u2019t high that 2025 will end up being the hottest year on the books, Russell Vose, a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told reporters recently. But this time last year, researchers were saying much the same thing about 2024, Dr. Vose said. They were wrong.<\/p>\n

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Earth\u2019s prolonged streak of abnormal heat continued into 2025 despite the arrival of La Ni\u00f1a ocean conditions, which typically bring cooler temperatures.Even as much of the United States shivered under frigid conditions last month, the planet as a whole had its warmest January on record, scientists said on Thursday.The warmth came as something of a surprise to climate researchers. It occurred during La Ni\u00f1a conditions in the Pacific Ocean, which tend to lower the globe\u2019s average temperature, at least temporarily.Earth\u2019s surface has now been so warm for so much of the past two years that scientists are examining whether something else in the planet\u2019s chemistry might have changed, something that is boosting temperatures beyond what carbon emissions alone can explain.Those emissions, the byproduct of burning coal, gas and oil, remain the main driver of global warming, which reached record levels in both 2023 and 2024.It\u2019s because of La Ni\u00f1a that scientists expected this year to be slightly cooler than the past two years, both of which experienced the opposite pattern, El Ni\u00f1o. The waters of the eastern tropical Pacific oscillate between El Ni\u00f1o and La Ni\u00f1a conditions, influencing weather worldwide by changing the balance between heat in the ocean and heat in the air.But a host of other factors figure into global temperatures as well. At the moment, chances aren\u2019t high that 2025 will end up being the hottest year on the books, Russell Vose, a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told reporters recently. But this time last year, researchers were saying much the same thing about 2024, Dr. Vose said. They were wrong.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21659,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21660,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21657\/revisions\/21660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}