While the UK may have experienced a cooler January than on average, strategic lead for climate at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Samantha Burgess, warned: "A much larger area of the planet's surface was much, much warmer than average.
Ben Goloff, senior climate campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity, added in a statement shared with The Independent: “Pulling out of Paris shows how threatened Trump is by the recent global compact to transition away from fossil fuels.
Professor Stefan Doerr, director of the Centre for Wildfire Research at Swansea University, told the BBC: "While fires are common and natural in this region, California has seen some of the most significant increases in the length and extremity of the fire weather season globally in recent decades, driven largely climate change.”.
“Global leaders are on the right track to get us off the coal, oil and gas that are disrupting the climate and wreaking havoc from LA to North Carolina and all around the world.
Scientists have warned that “dangerous climate breakdown” has arrived after the warmest January ever was recorded globally, defying expectations that 2025 might be cooler than previous years.
