{"id":135101,"date":"2026-03-23T06:02:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/earth-records-hottest-11-year-period-as-climate-crisis-deepens-wmo\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T06:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:02:47","slug":"earth-records-hottest-11-year-period-as-climate-crisis-deepens-wmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/earth-records-hottest-11-year-period-as-climate-crisis-deepens-wmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth records hottest 11-year period as climate crisis deepens: WMO"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 23 \u2014 The period from 2015 to 2025 has been the hottest 11-year stretch on record, with Earth\u2019s climate system increasingly out of balance due to rising greenhouse gas emissions, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a report released Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The UN weather agency\u2019s flagship State of the Global Climate 2025<\/em> report found that 2025 ranked among the second or third warmest years in the 176-year observational record, with global temperatures about 1.43\u00b0C above the 1850\u20131900 pre-industrial average.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state of the global climate is in a state of emergency. Planet Earth is being pushed beyond its limits. Every key climate indicator is flashing red,\u201d said Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, warning that humanity has \u201cjust endured the eleven hottest years on record.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen history repeats itself eleven times, it is no longer a coincidence. It is a call to act,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The report was released on World Meteorological Day, marked annually on March 23, under the 2026 theme \u201cObserving Today, Protecting Tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the WMO, Earth\u2019s climate is now \u201cmore out of balance than at any time in observed history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases\u2014carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide\u2014have reached their highest levels in at least 800,000 years, disrupting the planet\u2019s natural energy balance.<\/p>\n

For the first time, the report includes Earth\u2019s energy imbalance as a key climate indicator, measuring the difference between incoming solar energy and the energy leaving the Earth system.<\/p>\n

Scientists say this imbalance has risen steadily since records began in 1960 and reached a new high in 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cScientific advances have improved our understanding of the Earth\u2019s energy imbalance and of the reality facing our planet and our climate right now,\u201d said WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuman activities are increasingly disrupting the natural equilibrium, and we will live with these consequences for hundreds and thousands of years,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Extreme weather events linked to rising temperatures caused widespread disruption in 2025, including heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, storms and flooding, resulting in thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in losses.<\/p>\n

Oceans continue to absorb most of the excess heat from global warming, with more than 91 percent of the additional heat stored in the ocean. They also absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n

Ocean heat content reached another record high in 2025, extending a streak of annual records over the past nine years.<\/p>\n

The rate of ocean warming between 2005 and 2025 has more than doubled compared with the period from 1960 to 2005, the report said.<\/p>\n

Melting ice is also accelerating climate impacts. Arctic sea ice levels in 2025 were at or near record lows, while Antarctic sea ice ranked among the lowest ever recorded.<\/p>\n

Glaciers worldwide continued to lose mass, with significant losses reported in Iceland and along the Pacific coast of North America.<\/p>\n

Rising ocean temperatures and melting ice are driving long-term global sea level rise, which has accelerated since satellite measurements began in 1993.<\/p>\n

The report warns that many of these changes\u2014including ocean warming, sea-level rise and deep-ocean acidification\u2014will continue for centuries, according to projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 23 \u2014 The period from 2015 to 2025 has been the hottest 11-year stretch on record, with Earth\u2019s climate system increasingly out of balance due to rising greenhouse gas emissions, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a report released Monday. The UN weather agency\u2019s flagship State of the Global Climate 2025 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}