{"id":84323,"date":"2026-05-01T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/?p=84323"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:32:27","slug":"almost-all-of-europe-was-abnormally-hot-in-2025-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/almost-all-of-europe-was-abnormally-hot-in-2025-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost all of Europe was abnormally hot in 2025, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A heat wave near the Arctic, a warmer Mediterranean and wildfires and floods across Europe were part of a year of extremes in 2025, further evidence of how human activity is changing the continent\u2019s climate, European scientists said in a report on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least 95 percent of Europe had above-average annual temperatures in 2025, according to the report. Wildfires burned more than a million hectares of land, the most on record. Glaciers lost mass and snow cover was below average. According to scientific consensus, these are all consequences of global warming, mainly driven by the burning of coal, oil and gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEurope is the fastest-warming continent, and the impacts are already severe,\u201d said Florian Pappenberger, the director general of the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, which produced the annual European State of the Climate report along with the World Meteorological Organization. More than 100 scientists contributed to the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe has warmed about twice as fast as the world as a whole, with the average temperature on the continent rising by 0.56 degrees Celsius, about 1 degree Fahrenheit, over the last 30 years, compared to 0.27 degrees Celsius globally, according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe\u2019s proximity to the Arctic, the fastest-warming region on Earth, has made it more vulnerable, said Liz Bentley, the head of Britain\u2019s Royal Meteorological Society, who studied the report but did not contribute to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEach year we see more records being broken and more extreme weather events as our climate continues to warm,\u201d she wrote in an email. \u201cThe amplified warming in the Arctic is of concern not just for the Arctic region but for the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temperatures in the Arctic have risen by 0.75 degrees Celsius in the last 30 years. In 2025, the Greenland ice sheet lost more ice, by volume, than is contained in all the glaciers in the European Alps, and Iceland\u2019s glaciers recorded their second-largest loss of mass on record, according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That has profound consequences beyond the Arctic. Ice melt contributes to rising sea levels and also heats up the planet faster because less snow and ice means that less sunlight is reflected back into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The continent is also experiencing freezing temperatures less frequently, the report found. In July, parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland saw a record three-week heat wave. Separately, even inside the Arctic Circle, there were days when temperatures exceeded 30 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising temperatures affected many river basins in the continent. In May, more than half of Europe experienced drought conditions. About 70 percent of its rivers had below-average annual flow, and it was one of the three driest years for soil moisture since 1992, according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

European sea surface temperatures were the highest on record for the fourth consecutive year, with a \u201cstrong\u201d marine heat wave recorded in the Mediterranean and a \u201csevere\u201d one in the Norwegian Sea, the report found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report \u201cpaints a stark picture,\u201d said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service at the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. \u201cThe pace of climate change demands more urgent action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n