How Hot Was 2025, Really? || Climate Change || Year in Review || ProtectTheEarth
How Hot Was 2025, Really? || Climate Change || Year in Review || ProtectTheEarth National Geographic As a reflection of the final day of 2025, I've decided to write about what I think was the most important current event we faced this year: climate change, and just how hot this planet has been getting. Search the topic online, and you'll quickly find people with strong opinions. The discussion usually falls into 3 categories: Scientists sounding the alarm with data most people never actually read Politicians and commentators arguing about whether any of it is worth taking seriously Everyone else somewhere in between—vaguely aware that the summers feel longer and the storms feel worse, but not totally sure what to do with that feeling. A Record Year, Again "Vital Signs of the Planet" NASA, 31 December 2025 2025 was not the hottest year on record (That title still belongs to 2024) But scientists tracking global temperatures all year were saying 2025 was on pace to lan...