2025 was the third-warmest year on record globally, following the record-breaking heat of 2023 and 2024, according to data from the latest Copernicus report.⁣ ⁣ While slightly cooler than 2023 and 2024, temperatures remained exceptionally high.⁣ ⁣ 2024 still holds the record as the warmest year ever and the first to clearly exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.⁣ ⁣ The global average temperature reached 14.97°C, around 1.47°C above pre-industrial levels, placing 2025 firmly among the top three warmest years ever recorded.⁣ ⁣ Europe also experienced its third-warmest year on record. Average temperatures reached 10.41°C, 1.17°C above the 1991–2020 average, just 0.02°C cooler than 2020, the second-warmest year.⁣ ⁣ Temperatures were above average across nearly all of Europe, with record warmth in the North Atlantic, the North Sea region (including northern Britain and parts of Scandinavia), the southwestern Mediterranean, and western Russia.⁣ ⁣ #climate #climatechange #globalwarming #gl...