Climate change

WMO: 11 Hottest Years All Fell Between 2015-2025

Is climate change an undeniable emergency demanding urgent action or an alarmist agenda driven by flawed data?

Published MAR 23

WMO: 11 Hottest Years All Fell Between 2015-2025

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Above: A soybean plant in a dry, cracked field at a farm in Rosario, Argentina, on Jan. 15, 2025. Image credit: Sebastian Lopez Brach/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Facts

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) annual State of the Global Climate report confirmed that the 11 hottest years ever recorded all occurred between 2015 and 2025, marking Earth’s energy imbalance at a 65-year record.
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Last year ranked as the second or third hottest on record, approximately 1.43 degrees Celsius above the 1850-1900 average, according to the WMO.
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According to the report, greenhouse gases CO2, methane and nitrous oxide have reached their highest rate of concentration in at least 800,000 years, disrupting the balance between incoming and outgoing solar energy.
Hürriyet Daily News
France24.com
Ocean heat content hit a record high in 2025, with the rate of ocean warming more than doubling between 1960-2005 and 2005-2025. Over 91% of Earth's excess heat is absorbed by the oceans, the WMO said.
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Ynet
Le Monde
Arctic sea ice in 2025 was at its lowest or second-lowest extent in the satellite era, and global mean sea level stood around 11 centimeters higher than when satellite altimetry records began in 1993.
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Le Monde
WMO scientific officer John Kennedy said forecasts point to neutral conditions by mid-2026 and a possible El Niño before year's end, which could push temperatures to "elevated" levels again in 2027.
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The Spin

Climate-concerned narrative

The planet is in a full-blown climate emergency, and the data makes it undeniable — all 11 hottest years on record fell between 2015 and 2025. Earth's energy imbalance hit an all-time high in 2025, oceans are breaking heat records nine years running, and Arctic sea ice is vanishing fast. Delay isn't just costly, it's deadly.

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Climate-skeptic narrative

The WMO has drifted from its original mission of meteorological cooperation into outright climate alarmism. Heat death figures cited by WMO leadership are modeling estimates — not real body counts — while cold weather kills at nine times the rate. Trillion-dollar scare projections exist to justify political agendas, not to inform the public.