{"id":27029,"date":"2026-11-07T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=27029"},"modified":"2026-11-07T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:12:00","slug":"copernicus-predicts-2026-to-be-second-warmest-year-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2026\/11\/07\/copernicus-predicts-2026-to-be-second-warmest-year-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Copernicus Predicts 2026 To Be Second-Warmest Year On Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\">The EU\u2019s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said 2026 is virtually certain to exceed 1.5\u00b0C of global warming above pre-industrial levels, becoming the second calendar year to do so after 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The service explained that exceeding the 1.5\u00b0C threshold in a single year does not constitute a formal breach of the long-term climate threshold, which is assessed on the basis of sustained average temperatures over a longer period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Copernicus said 2026 is most likely to become the second-warmest year on record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">It estimated a 20 percent chance that 2026 could tie or exceed the record set in 2024, while forecasts indicate that the average global temperature for the 2023\u20132026 period will also exceed 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">October was the warmest October on record globally, with the average surface air temperature standing 1.75\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels.<\/p>\n<p>It was the third consecutive month in which global temperatures exceeded the 1.5\u00b0C threshold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU\u2019s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said 2026 is virtually certain to exceed 1.5\u00b0C of global warming above pre-industrial levels, becoming the second calendar year to do so after 2024. The service explained that exceeding the 1.5\u00b0C threshold in a single year does not constitute a formal breach of the long-term climate threshold, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27033,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27029\/revisions\/27033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}