Last year raised many major red flags for climate change, perhaps greatest of all it being the first year in which global average temperatures exceeded 1.5º C above pre-industrial levels. This is the threshold the majority of countries, including the U.S., vowed not to surpass in the 2015 Paris climate accord. 2025 isn’t looking much better, as January was already the hottest in recorded human history, shocking some scientists who had hoped the La Niña cycle would cool things down a bit. It hasn’t.
These are more than just ominous statistics — this extreme heat has translated into countless examples of real-world “weird weather” including unprecedented heat waves, wildfires, floods and extreme storms across the globe. Virtually nowhere has been untouched by climate change disasters, from California and the American southeast to Spain, Greece and Africa, all of which seems to be getting worse.
