In the conditions of the climatic crisis hanging over the planet, scientists give up more and more efforts to understand how the climatic system of the Earth changes. As the planet heats up more and more, incredible waves of heat and drought are falling on the world, and scientists now and then fix temperature records, writes BBC.

Last year, officially became the hottest in the history of observations, but the scientists expected that January 2025 would probably be slightly cooler than January 2024-the reason for this is the departure from the natural weather model in the Pacific Ocean, also known as El-Neno. Instead, the last month has become the warmest January in the world in the history of observations, which raises additional questions about the pace of climate change.

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The data of the experts of the European climatic service Copernicus indicate that the last month broke the record of January 2024 by almost 0.1 degrees Celsius. The main causes of warming, according to scientists, are anthropogenic emissions of gases heating the planet - mainly the burning of fossil fuel. However, scientists still do not fully understand that record temperatures are caused in January 2025.

Note that January 2025, in fact, continues a series of surprisingly high temperature records since mid -2023, when the temperature was about 0.2 degrees above the expected. According to Gavin Schmidt, director of the Goddard Space Studies in NASA, the main reason why the planet beats all these records, and the tendency to warming has been observed for decades, is that people only increase the number of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere.

However, scientists believe that the record temperatures 2023, 2024 and the beginning of 2025, probably became so warm, including for a number of other factors - scientists are still trying to establish them. January 2025 was 1.75 ° C warmer than January temperatures of the late 19th century, before people began to significantly warm the climate.

It is assumed that at the beginning of last year, global temperatures increased due to the natural weather phenomenon, known as El Nigno, when unusually warm surface waters spread through the eastern tropical part of the Pacific Ocean. This releases additional heat into the atmosphere, increasing global temperatures.

This year, as scientists previously stated, the conditions of La-Ninya are developing in the Pacific, which should cause the opposite effect. Although the La-Ninya model is now weak-and sometimes it takes several months to fully affect the temperature-it was expected that it would lead to cooler January.

According to the head of the monthly and ten -year forecasts department in the UK meteoro Office Adam Skamif, a few months ago he believed that January 2025, compared with January last year, would be noticeably cooler. However, observations show that this is not so.

Scientists still do not know what this is connected with, but they have several theories about why the past few years have been warmer than expected:.

Experts note that the first theory seems less likely. However, most scientists are also not convinced that the second theory is true. But, if this is true, this may mean that we are waiting for a greater climate change than previously expected. Fortunately, scientists believe that the next few months will probably shed light on this riddle.

Currently, most researchers still expect that 2025 will be a little colder than 2023 and 2024, but recent warming means that they cannot be sure of this. However, they know that sooner or later new records will follow, since humanity continues to heat the planet.

Previously, Focus wrote that scientists called the hottest summer on earth in history.