Month of May was world’s second-warmest on record: EU scientists | Climate Crisis News

The largest temperature increases were recorded in the Middle East, Western Asia, northeast of Russia and northern Canada.

This year, the world has known its second richest month in May since the start of the files, said Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European Union in a monthly bulletin.

Global surface temperatures last month were on average of 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than in the pre-industrial period of 1850-1900, when humans began to burn fossil fuels on an industrial scale, said C3S.

The latest data occurs in the middle of the mixed momentum on climate action in the world, China and the EU reducing emissions as Trump administration and technology companies increase their use of fossil fuels.

“Temperatures were higher than average on western Antarctica, a large area of ​​the Middle East and Western Asia, northeast of Russia and northern Canada,” added the Bulletin C3S.

At 1.4 ° C above pre-industrial levels, May was also the first month worldwide so as not to exceed 1.5 ° C (2.7F) in warming in 22 months.

“May 2025 breaks an unprecedented sequence of 1.5 ° C above the pre-industrial,” said Carlo Buontempo, director of C3S.

“Although this can offer a brief respite to the planet, we expect the 1.5C threshold to be exceeded again in the near future due to the continuous warming of the climate system,” said Buonempo.

The increase in temperatures was particularly felt in the Pakistani city of Jacobabad in the Sindh province, where residents made eyes with extreme temperatures in the 1940s, which sometimes reached 50 ° C (122 F).

Flood temperatures followed another heat wave last June which killed more than 560 people in southern Pakistan.

“Although a heat wave is about 20C may not seem to be an extreme event of the experience of most people of the world, it is really a big problem for this part of the world,” Journalists Friederike Otto, Associate Professor in Climate Sciences at Imperial College, to journalists.

“This massively affects the whole world,” added Otto. “Without climate change, it would have been impossible.”

In a separate report published on Wednesday, the research collaboration on the allocation of global weather (WWA) said that the Greenland ice cap melted 17 times faster than the previous average during a heat wave in May which also struck Iceland.

Mixed momentum on climate action

The latest data arises in the midst of mixed progress on the action of climate change.

President Donald Trump promised to “drill, baby, forest” during his presidency, even if his country faces increasingly serious weather events, such as fires that have torn the capital of California, Los Angelesat the end of last year. Programs technological companies Are also booming, as the expansion of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers increases global electricity demand, according to a recent report from the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

The new analysis of the Carbon Brief Climate Report site has revealed that China’s emissions can have culminated because the country increased electricity supplies from new wind turbines, solar and nuclear capacity and reduces its dependence on coal and other fossil fuels.

“China’s emissions fell 1.6% in annual shift in the first quarter of 2025 and 1% in the past 12 months,” Carbon Brief reported last month.

“If this scheme is supported, it would announce a sustained peak and decline in the Chinese power sector emissions,” he added.

The EU also announced last week that its 27 Member States were on the right track to achieve their objective of a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

“The emissions have decreased by 37% since 1990, while the economy has increased by almost 70% – proving that action and climate growth go hand in hand,” said Wopke Hoekstra, EU climate commissioner, zero net and clean growth.

In the Caribbean, leaders Recently met to plan means of restoring mangroves forests in the region, which help prevent climate change and protect from the increase in sea level and the intensification of storms.