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In January 2026, the World Meteorological Organization released its final assessment of the previous year's global climate.
The WMO's 2026 assessment found 2025 ranked among the top three warmest years ever recorded, extending an eleven-year streak in which every year has placed among the eleven warmest ever measured, with ocean heat continuing to surge.
It was not the coldest year of the past decade, quite the opposite, and it was well above, not at, the long-term twentieth-century average, reflecting sustained warming rather than a return to historical norms.
The three-year average has now crossed the Paris Agreement's 1.5 degree Celsius guardrail for the first time, showing how close the world runs to that threshold, even though the treaty target is measured over decades.
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