Global warming is accelerating faster than expected: scientists warn

Global temperatures have been rising for decades. But many scientists say it s nowhappening faster than ever before. Since the 1970s, the Earth, fu...

Global temperatures have been rising for decades. But many scientists say it’s nowhappening faster than ever before.

Since the 1970s, the Earth, fueled by enormous quantities of greenhouse gas emissions, has been warming at a fairly steady rate.

But in the last few years, something changed. 2023, 2024 and 2025 were far warmer than the previous trend.

Comparing 30-year trends, scientists can see if the rate of warming is changing across decades, including over the last three years.

According to a Washington Post analysis, the fastest warming rate on recordoccurred in the last 30 years. The Post used a dataset from NASA to analyse global average surface temperatures from 1880 to 2025.