Canadian scientists say the recent stretch of exceptional global temperatures shows no signs of letting up in 2026.<\/p>\n
Scientists with Environment and Climate Change Canada say global average temperatures this year are expected to be around 1.44 C warmer than pre-industrial averages.<\/p>\n
That would put it behind 2024\u2019s record-breaking warmth but in the same range as the next two hottest years, 2023 and 2025. <\/p>\n
Climate modelling forecasts indicate the five-year stretch starting in 2026 is expected to be the hottest on record. <\/p>\n
Steadily rising global temperatures, driven by heat-trapping fossil fuel emissions, got a boost in 2023 and 2024 from a strong El Ni\u00f1o, a natural climate warming phase. <\/p>\n
Yet what some scientists found remarkable about last year was how temperatures stayed at near-record levels despite a flip to the cooling influence of a La Ni\u00f1a phase.<\/p>\n
Forecasts suggest a return to neutral conditions this year, possibly followed by an El Ni\u00f1o event later in the year that could lead to record temperatures in 2027, ECCC said in Monday\u2019s news release.<\/p>\n
Canada is warming at more than twice the global rate, and even faster in the north.<\/p>\n
ECCC scientists said Monday there\u2019s a 12 per cent chance that global temperatures this year could climb to 1.5 C above pre-industrial averages \u2014 a key target of the 2015 Paris Agreement. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s estimated the world may fully breach that threshold by 2030, a decade earlier than what some scientists had predicted when the agreement was signed. <\/p>\n
United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, speaking at the UN climate summit in November, enjoined countries to act \u201cwith great speed and scale\u201d to ensure global temperatures come back down by the end of the century. <\/p>\n
\u201cEach year above 1.5 degrees will hammer economies, deepen inequalities and inflict irreversible damage,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 19, 2026. <\/p>\n
Jordan Omstead, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian scientists say the recent stretch of exceptional global temperatures shows no signs of letting up in 2026.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-421780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}