2025 Confirmed as Second Hottest Year on Record, Continuing Warming Trend
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Summary
The article reports that 2025 will conclude as the second hottest year on record, surpassed only by 2024, continuing a recent trend of exceptional and unexplained warming. The last three years have been the hottest ever recorded by a wide margin, indicating a concerning acceleration in global temperature increases beyond what climate models predicted.
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It continues a recent trend of exceptional, unexplained warming.
The last three years have been, by a wide margin, the hottest ever recorded.
Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/2025-second-hottest-year
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46434301
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