A vendor sleeps on a hot afternoon at her shop at Market 4 in Asuncion, Paraguay, January 17, 2025
THE world was warmed to yet another monthly record temperature in January, despite a cooling La Nina and predictions of a slightly less hot 2025, according to the European climate service Copernicus.
The surprising January heat record coincides with a new study by former top Nasa scientist James Hansen and others arguing that global warming is accelerating. It’s a claim that’s dividing the research community.
January 2025 globally was 0.09°C warmer than January 2024, the previous hottest January, and was 1.75°C warmer than it was before industrial times, Copernicus calculated.
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors
