{"id":635003,"date":"2026-11-10T00:49:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T22:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/korabelov.info\/2026\/11\/635003\/2026-could-rank-among-the-four-hottest-years-on-record\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T00:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T22:57:21","slug":"2026-could-rank-among-the-four-hottest-years-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/korabelov.info\/en\/2026\/11\/635003\/2026-could-rank-among-the-four-hottest-years-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Could Rank Among the Four Hottest Years on Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

2026<\/strong> may become one<\/strong> of the four hottest years<\/strong> on record. Reuters<\/a><\/strong> reports this, citing a UN<\/strong> climate report drawing on data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Record changes have already taken place in the oceans: their temperatures in 2026<\/strong> exceeded the previous year’s highs. At the same time, the global average sea level rose to a new record.<\/p>\n

Scientists attribute rising sea levels to melting glaciers and ice sheets. Another<\/strong> factor is the expansion of seawater as it warms.<\/p>\n

From January to September<\/strong>, the planet’s average temperature was 1.47\u00b0C<\/strong> above pre-industrial levels. This gap may widen in the coming months, as the powerful El Ni\u00f1o<\/strong> phenomenon affects global temperatures.<\/p>\n

The WMO<\/strong> also points to a long-term trend: the last 12 years<\/strong>, including 2026<\/strong>, have been the warmest on record. This series of meteorological data goes back to around 1850<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The European Union’s Copernicus<\/strong> climate service predicts that 2026<\/strong> will almost certainly be the second<\/strong> calendar year after 2024<\/strong> in which the average temperature exceeds pre-industrial levels by more than 1.5\u00b0C<\/strong>. This temperature threshold is enshrined as a long-term benchmark in the 2015 Paris Agreement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

John Kennedy<\/strong>, head of the WMO<\/strong>‘s Climate Information division, explained that the main climate indicators are following a shared trend. Heat accumulating due to greenhouse gas emissions is affecting the entire climate system\u2014from the atmosphere and oceans to ice cover and sea levels.<\/p>\n

The updated data were presented ahead of the next round of international climate talks in Turkey<\/strong>, scheduled for November 9\u201320<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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We previously reported:<\/strong><\/p>\n