In 2025 the world experienced the warmest May ever recorded, in Greenland the ice melted 17 times faster

The world experienced its second-warmest May on record, a month in which climate change fueled a record heat wave in  Greenland.

Scientists say last month was the second warmest May on Earth and marked the peak of the second warmest spring (March-May) ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere.

Earth's surface temperatures have been on average 1.4 degrees Celsius higher than the pre-industrial period from 1850 to 1900, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale.

This has led to a period of extreme heat, during which 21 of the last 22 months the average global temperature has been 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels - although scientists have warned that this period is unlikely to last.

"While this may offer a respite for the planet, we expect the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold to be breached again in the near future as the temperature of the climate system continues to rise ," said C3S director Carlo Buondebo.

The main cause of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. Last year was the warmest on record.

A separate study, published today by the climate science group World Weather Attribution, found that human-caused climate change caused a record heatwave in Iceland and Greenland last month, about 3 degrees Celsius warmer than it would have been otherwise, contributing to massive additional melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

From May 15 to 21, ice melted 17 times faster than the historical average in Greenland.

In Iceland, temperatures reached 26 degrees Celsius on May 15, the first time the Arctic island has experienced such a high temperature.

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