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Earth's climate more unbalanced than ever, WMO warns

Deutsche Welle · 🇩🇪 public Germany · · 1017 words · By Jennifer Collins
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What to know about Earth's climate more unbalanced than ever, WMO warns

Earth's climate more unbalanced than ever, WMO warns March 23, 2026Every person alive today has grown up in a world of worsening weather extremes.

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What happened

Earth's climate more unbalanced than ever, WMO warns March 23, 2026Every person alive today has grown up in a world of worsening weather extremes.

Why it matters

Last year, a 50-year flood swamped Texas, glaciers in Iceland melted at record speed, a hurricane struck Jamaica with near-unprecedented force, and the world sweltered through record heat.

Common ground

The window to change course is narrowing fast, warn scientists.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “Glaciers and sea ice continue their retreat.”
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Claim 2: “Ocean heat broke records again in 2025 for the ninth consecutive year, with 90% of the ocean surface experiencing at least one marine heatwave.”
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Claim 3: “Oceans reached unprecedented heat for the ninth year running.”
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Claim 4: “Earth's climate is more out of balance than at any point in observed history.”
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Claim 5: “Earth's energy imbalance reached a record high in 2025, with 91% of excess energy absorbed by oceans.”
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Claim 6: “1.2 billion workers are exposed to dangerous heat each year.”
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Claim 7: “Glacier mass loss ranked in the five worst years since records began in 1979.”
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Claim 8: “The WMO report does not make any policy recommendations.”
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Claim 9: “Dengue fever is now the world's fastest-growing mosquito-borne disease.”
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Claim 10: “Heatwaves, wildfires, flooding, drought and tropical cyclones caused thousands of deaths and billions in economic losses in 2025.”
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Claim 11: “California wildfires in January 2025 caused more than $60 billion in damage and were the costliest such event ever recorded.”
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Claim 12: “Arctic and Antarctic sea ice were among the lowest levels on record.”
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Claim 13: “Global mean sea level is rising at a faster rate since 2012 than in the preceding two decades.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Globalization (UK: globalisation) is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide. It can be attribu…
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Claim 14: “Weather-related disasters have forced 250 million people to leave their homes over the past decade.”
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Claim 15: “2015 to 2025 was the hottest decade on record.”
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Claim 16: “Earth's energy imbalance hits an all-time high.”
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Claim 17: “Last year ranked second or third hottest on record at approximately 1.43 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.”
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Claim 18: “CO2 reached its highest atmospheric level in at least 2 million years in 2024, and continued rising in 2025.”
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels reached their highest level in at least 2 million years in 2024 and continued to rise in 2025
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