Colombo: Global temperatures in 2025 are on track to make this year the second or third hottest ever recorded, according to European Union climate scientists. New assessments from the Copernicus Climate Change Service show that the world continues to warm at an alarming pace, pushing global temperatures very close to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree Celsius limit. Scientists say that temperatures from January to November this year were around 1.48 degree Celsius higher than levels recorded before the industrial era. This places 2025 close to 2023 and only slightly behind 2024, which remains the hottest year on record.

The World Meteorological Organization has also confirmed that 2025 is continuing a dangerous pattern of extreme warming. The last eleven years from 2015 to 2025 are now

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