It is practically certain that 2025 will end as the second or third warmest year on record, stated the European Union's climate monitoring agency, Xinhua reported. According to the Argentine News Agency, from January to November, the global average temperature was 1.48 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level, identical to that recorded in all of 2023, which is currently the second warmest year after 2024, according to the C3S. Although 2025 alone may not reach a 1.5 degrees Celsius increase relative to the pre-industrial level set by the Paris Agreement, it is likely that the average global temperature for the 2023-2025 period will exceed that threshold for the first time since records began, the climate service said. In November 2025 alone, the global average surface air temperature was 14.02 degrees Celsius, just 0.2 degrees below the November 2023 record and 0.08 degrees below November 2024, the C3S added. Buenos Aires, December 9 (NA) – The year 2025 is set to tie with 2023 as the second warmest year on record, while last month was the third warmest November globally, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). "These milestones are not abstract: they reflect the accelerating pace of climate change, and the only way to mitigate future temperature increases is to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions," said Samantha Burgess, strategic head of climate at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. In turn, sea surface temperatures also remained unusually high for November, averaging 20.42 degrees Celsius between 60 degrees north and south latitude, the fourth-highest value for this month. Additionally, Arctic sea ice extent was 12% below average, the second lowest for November, while Antarctic sea ice extent was 7% below average, the fourth lowest for that month, according to C3S.
