Earth is hot and getting hotter: UN warns next 5 years likely to smash records

🇭🇰 public Hong Kong · May 28, 2026 · 285 words · By Associated Press

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Earth is hot and getting hotter: UN warns next 5 years likely to smash records Climate agencies predict planet will experience a new hottest-ever year before 2031 In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the…

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The World Meteorological Organization also forecasts an overheating Arctic that warms nearly 1.66 degrees Celsius (3 Fahrenheit) between now and 2030 and a dangerous drought with potential wildfires for the Amazon, a crucial part of Earth’s natural defences…

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A hotter globe from the burning of coal, oil and gas means more extreme weather including floods, droughts and heatwaves, scientists said.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “a dangerous drought with potential wildfires for the Amazon”

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The Korea Times explicitly mentions the WMO forecast for dangerous drought and wildfires in the Amazon, and Revista Cenarium corroborates the risk of drought and wildfire outbreaks in the Amazon linked to El Niño.

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web search NEUTRAL — The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) also forecasts an overheating Arctic that warms nearly 3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.66 degrees Celsius) between now and 2030 and a dangerous drought with potenti…
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/world/20260528/think-its-hot-no…

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web search NEUTRAL — Scope: This TWTW begins with a discussion of global “experts” demanding that the World Health Organization declare a health crisis from global warming. TWTW asks where is the physical evidence of dang…
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/01/weekly-climate-and-en…

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web search NEUTRAL — In the Amazon, the document states that the drought may reach levels similar to or even worse than those recorded during the 2015 El Niño, when wildfire outbreaks increased by 36% compared to the aver…
https://revistacenarium.com.br/en/el-nino-2026-may-trigger-a…

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Claim 2: “That threshold was the agreed-upon limit of warming – averaged over 20 years – set in 2015 by the Paris climate agreement.”

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The Paris Agreement does set a limit of 1.5°C, but the claim states this is 'averaged over 20 years'. Authoritative sources (UNFCCC, Wikipedia) describe the 1.5°C target as a global warming limit relative to pre-industrial levels, not specifically as a 20-year average threshold.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the y…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Paris_A…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Paris Agreement (also called the Paris Accords or Paris Climate Accords) is an international treaty on climate change that was signed in 2016. The treaty covers climate change mitigation, adaptati…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Paris in the 18th century was the second-largest city in Europe after London, with a population of about 600,000 people. The century saw the construction of Place Vendôme, the Place de la Concorde, th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_the_18th_century

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Claim 3: “In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections.”

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Multiple web search results from different news sources confirm that UN climate projections indicate the next five years are overwhelmingly likely to surpass the global warming threshold and break temperature records.

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web search NEUTRAL — The WMO projects annual global temperatures to range between 1.3 and 1.9 degrees Celsius above the late 1800s levels. The report also warns of a strong El Nino event, which could exacerbate global war…
https://koacolorado.iheart.com/content/2026-05-28-extreme-he…

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web search NEUTRAL — The next five years are overwhelmingly likely to surpass the global warming threshold and break temperature records, according to UN climate projections. The World Meteorological Organization forecast…
https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/un-climate-projectio…

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web search NEUTRAL — The projections say there’s a 75% chance the average global temperature from 2026 to 2030 will exceed the agreed-upon global limit for warming.
https://www.nbcnews.com/weather/heat/think-s-hot-now-five-ye…

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Claim 4: “There was a 91 per cent chance that at least one of the next five years would shoot past the 1.5 degree threshold”

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Evidence is contradictory. One source states there is an 86% chance that at least one of the next five years will hit 1.5°C, while the claim asserts 91%. Another source mentions a 70% chance for the five-year average.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The list of weather records includes the most extreme occurrences of weather phenomena for various categories. Many weather records are measured under specific conditions—such as surface temperature a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — METAR is a format for reporting weather information. A METAR weather report is predominantly used by aircraft pilots, and by meteorologists, who use aggregated METAR information to assist in weather f…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophys…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Meteorological_Organizat…

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Claim 5: “The World Meteorological Organization also forecasts an overheating Arctic that warms nearly 1.66 degrees Celsius (3 Fahrenheit) between now and 2030”

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Only one specific news source (The Korea Times) mentions the specific figure of 1.66 degrees Celsius (3 Fahrenheit) for the Arctic by 2030. Other results are irrelevant (Sydney Sweeney) or general (Arctic climate Wikipedia).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Missouri generally has a variety of seasonal humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa), with cool winters and long, hot summers. In the southern part of the state, particularly in …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Missouri

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The climate of the Arctic is characterized by long, cold winters and short, cool summers. There is a large amount of variability in climate across the Arctic, but all regions experience extremes of so…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_Arctic

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Poles of Cold are the places in the Southern and Northern hemispheres where the lowest air temperatures have been recorded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_Cold

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Claim 6: “an 86 per cent chance that one of those years would smash the record for Earth’s hottest year set in 2024, the WMO report said.”

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Multiple sources (Facebook news summary and a news report on the WMO/UK Met Office study) specifically cite the 86% chance that at least one year between 2026 and 2030 will surpass the 2024 record.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — WMOS (102.3 FM, "102.3 The Wolf") is a classic rock radio station licensed to Stonington, Connecticut, serving southeastern Connecticut and southwestern Rhode Island. The station is owned and operated…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMOS

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The World Meteorological Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations. WMO may also refer to: Waste Motor Oil, used engine oil Wayanad Muslim Orphanage, Kerala, India Wireless Monitorin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMO_(disambiguation)

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Claim 7: “The projections by the UN climate agency and the United Kingdom’s Meteorological Office said there was a 75 per cent chance that the average global temperature between 2026 and 2030 would exceed 1.5 degrees since pre-industrial times.”

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There is a conflict in the percentages provided by different sources. One source mentions a 75% chance for 2026-2030, while another (UN Climate Reports) mentions a 66% likelihood for 2023-2027, and Wikipedia mentions almost a 50% chance for 2024-2028. The specific 75% figure for 2026-2030 is not consistently verified across the provided evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The great storm of 1987 was a violent extratropical cyclone that occurred on the night of 15–16 October, with hurricane-force winds causing casualties in England, France, and the Channel Islands as a …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_storm_of_1987

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous distric…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — PRECIS (Providing REgional Climates for Impacts Studies, pronounced pray-sea) is developed at the Hadley Centre at the UK Met Office, PRECIS is a regional climate modelling system designed to run on a…
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