What Climate Change Did to Us in 2025

Climate change has made many extreme weather events more likely or caused them to manifest with greater intensity, according to a report by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative published on Tuesday, Hina reports.

Global warming is already pushing millions of people to the limits of their ability to adapt, WWA says in its annual 2025 report.

Every year, the risks of climate change become less hypothetical and an increasingly brutal reality, says Friederike Otto, Professor of Climate Science at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London and co-founder of World Weather Attribution.

The team counted 157 extreme weather events in 2025 — 49 floods, 49 heatwaves, 38 storms, 11 wildfires, seven droughts, and three cold spells.

Events are only added to the list when they exceed a certain threshold, for example when they cause more than one hundred deaths, affect more than one million people, or when a national or regional disaster is declared.

The WWA team conducted detailed analyses of 22 of the 157 events, finding that 17 of them were more likely to occur or had already become more severe due to climate change. For only five weather events — extreme rainfall — the results were inconclusive.

Among the events was a seven-day heatwave in February in South Sudan, with temperatures reaching up to 40 degrees Celsius. According to the analysis, temperatures would have reached no more than 36 degrees without climate change.

Source:Bljesak.info