Climate disruption: global temperature record

The New York Times presents 10 January 2025 data confirming 2024 as the hottest year in modern records, breaching 1.5°C over twelve months. The piece cites NASA, NOAA and Copernicus EU, links heatwaves to GHG emissions and urges faster fossil exit. Urgent tone: every month of delay costs lives and billions.

Le Monde covers the record with a European angle: Mediterranean droughts, Alpine melt and carbon border tax debate. The daily recalls Paris Agreement and COP29 pledges while questioning French policy coherence — nuclear, agroecology, transport — as warming accelerates faster than forecast.

Al Jazeera places the record in climate justice frame: Gulf states face unbearable summers while Sahel and South Asia suffer droughts and floods together. The outlet criticises the adaptation finance gap for vulnerable countries and highlights African and Arab voices absent from major Western media.

TASS acknowledges the temperature record while noting methodological uncertainties and natural factors. The agency recalls Russia also faces permafrost melt and Siberian fires but denounces climate used as a weapon against hydrocarbon exporters. Calls for a transition that does not unfairly penalise emerging economies.

Xinhua confirms global data and stresses common but differentiated responsibilities. The agency highlights Chinese renewable investment — solar, wind, nuclear — while noting developed countries failed the $100bn annual pledge. Beijing urges cooperation without politicising the climate debate.