US EditionEarth’s climate is now 'out of balance,' new global report warns
The planet’s energy imbalance reached its highest level on record in 2025, with over 91% of excess heat absorbed by oceans, accelerating climate impacts globally.
- The World Meteorological Organization released the State of the Global Climate 2025, reporting Earth's energy imbalance reached its highest level since 1960 last year.
- Analysis shows human-driven emissions upset the incoming-outgoing energy equilibrium as greenhouse gases rose to their highest levels in at least 800,000 years, reducing Earth's heat release.
- About 91% of excess heat is now stored in the oceans, and ocean heat content reached a record high last year as warming more than doubled from 1960–2005 to 2005–2025, with growing heat detected below 2,000 meters.
- Trapped heat is already intensifying extreme weather and disrupting communities and food producers, while melting ice and warming oceans drive global mean sea-level rise projected to last centuries.
- U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned 'our addiction to fossil fuels is destabilizing both the climate and global security' and climate advocates said the window for effective action is closing.
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WMO warns 'ocean warming at record levels & will continue for hundreds, if not thousands, of years'
Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Claire Ransom, coordinator of the WMO's State of the Global Climate 2025 report. Ransom warns that the planet is not only warming, but entering a state of energy imbalance. Driven by record concentrations of greenhouse gases, climate change is intensifying across interconnected systems: oceans, cryosphere, and atmosphere. At the heart of this shift is the ocean, now absorbing the vast majority of excess heat. T…
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced today that the Earth's climate is more out of balance than ever as concentrations of greenhouse gases drive continued warming of the atmosphere, oceans and melting of ice. They point out that these rapid and major changes have occurred in the last few decades, and will have harmful effects for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
The amount of thermal energy that trapped the planet reached a historic peak in 2025. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a specialized UN entity, issued this warning on Monday due to the consequences that will persist for hundreds of years. UN Secretary General António Guterres pointed out that the global climate is in an emergency situation.The leader said that the main climate indicators exceeded the alarm thresholds established afte…
Climate crisis: The annual climate report from the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) paints an alarming picture. Never before since the…
Earth’s climate is now 'out of balance,' new global report warns
The Earths climate system is now out of balance, according to a new global report with scientists warning that a key measure of warming has reached its highest level on record.The latest State of the Global Climate report from the World Meteorological Organization finds that the planet is retaining more heat than it releases back into space, a growing gap known as Earths energy imbalance. And that imbalance is now accelerating.In 2025, it reache…
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