The European Copernicus climate surveillance observatory said Thursday that April 2025 was the second warmer April ever recorded, extending the sequence of months whose temperature exceeded the bar of +1.5 ° C of warming compared to the pre -industrial era.
The air temperature at the global level thus displayed an average of 14.96 ° C last April, a higher 0.60 ° C level than the average for the months of April over the period 1991-2020, said the observatory, noting that the 2025 will appear 1.51 ° C above the estimated average for the period 1850-1900, which makes it more than likely the 21st month to the last 22 The air greater than +1.5 ° C compared to the prosecutor era.
The Paris climate agreement aims to contain global global warming well inside +2 ° C and if possible at 1.5 ° C. It is a long -term objective and a temporary surpassing of several months does not mean that the most ambitious objective of the international agreement is definitively out of reach.
-In Europe, the average air temperature was measured on average at 9.38 ° C in April, or 1.01 ° C above the average of 1991-2020, noted Copernicus, according to which April 2025 is part of the hottest sixth month ever measured on the old continent.
Globally, the temperature on the surface of the seas also continues to display very high levels. With an average of 20.89 ° C, this is the second hottest month of April, behind the April 2024 record.
The year 2024 was the hottest worldwide and the first calendar year during which the global average temperature exceeded the warming threshold of 1.5 ° C compared to the pre-industrial levels, with an average temperature of 15.10 ° C, or 1.6 ° C above the so-called pre-industrial era.
