(Photo: Pornprom Satrabhaya)BRUSSELS — The planet ‌experienced its third-warmest year on record in 2025, ​and average temperatures have exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming over three years, the longest period since records began, European Union (EU) scientists said on Wednesday. Britain's national weather service, the UK Met Office, confirmed its own data ranked 2025 as the third-warmest in records going back to 1850. "We are bound to pass it," said Carlo Buontempo, director of the EU's ‌Copernicus ‍Climate Change Service. United States President Donald Trump, who has called climate change "the greatest con job", last week withdrew from dozens of United Nations (UN) entities including the scientific Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The long-established consensus among the world's scientists is that climate change is real, mostly caused by humans, and getting ​worse.

Source: Bangkok Post January 14, 2026 15:57 UTC