The planet’s climate system is drifting dangerously out of balance, with a record energy surplus heating oceans, fuelling extreme weather and threatening food and health systems worldwide.

A stark new report from the World Meteorological Organization warns that the Earth is absorbing far more energy than it releases — a growing imbalance driven largely by fossil fuel emissions. Scientists say the trend is accelerating, raising the risk of deeper and longer-lasting climate shocks.

Eleven Years of Relentless Heat

The report confirms the period from 2015 to 2025 as the hottest decade ever recorded.

But scientists say surface temperatures tell only a fraction of the story. The heat felt by humans represents barely 1 per cent of the total energy accumulating inside the Earth system.

Most of the excess heat is disappearing into the oceans — a vast reservoir now warming faster than at any time in recorded history.

Oceans Absorbing the Planet’s Fever

More than 90 per cent of the extra heat generated by greenhouse gases is absorbed by the oceans.

Ocean heat content reached record levels last year, and the pace of warming has more than doubled over the past two decades compared with the previous half century. Scientists warn this hidden heat is altering ocean circulation and locking climate impacts into the system for centuries.

Sea levels are rising faster, polar ice is shrinking and marine ecosystems — including coral reefs — are increasingly under stress.

Planetary Alarm Bells Ringing

The deeper problem is the disruption of the Earth’s natural energy balance.

In a stable system, incoming solar radiation roughly matches the heat radiating back into space. That equilibrium has been broken by emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide — all now at levels unseen for at least 800,000 years.

The imbalance has been growing since the 1960s and has surged sharply since 2005.

Global Heating Set to Surge Again

The political stakes are rising as climate thresholds loom closer.

World leaders already accept that the goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C under the Paris Agreement will likely be breached temporarily.

António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, warned the signals are unmistakable.

“The state of the global climate is in a state of emergency,” he said. “Every key indicator is flashing red.”

Scientists fear the next phase of the climate cycle — when El Niño returns later this year — could push global temperatures to new records once again.

Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high

It's the end of the world ......

No, wait, it isn't.

Don't worry WWIII will sort it all out.

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

It's the end of the world ......

No, wait, it isn't.

It's all good...

No wait, it isn't.

Part of the cycle that eventually leads to an Ice Age.

9 minutes ago, connda said:

Part of the cycle that eventually leads to an Ice Age.

Nonsense nonsense. If anything, until modern times there's been a slight cooling for the past 2,000 years. A sharp jump in temperature is not due to any cycle.

22 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Nonsense nonsense. If anything, until modern times there's been a slight cooling for the past 2,000 years. A sharp jump in temperature is not due to any cycle.

Well, at least nobody can blame me,

My misses drives an EV, I drive an EMTB, and all the electricity for them and our house is provided by our solar panels.

What are you doing for your beliefs?

Just now, BritManToo said:

Well, at least nobody can blame me,

My misses drives an EV, I drive an EMTB, and all the electricity for them and our house is provided by our solar panels.

What are you doing for your beliefs?

You know, I've been pushing for aseannow.com to make a forum all about me. So far no luck. But maybe I could circulate a petition to see if that would get the powers that be to change their collective mind. Until then, I'm going to stick to the issues. Which is what the moderators recommend.

I think the solution is to destroy the polluting USA and give control of the world to clean China, they can decide everything.

2 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

You know, I've been pushing for aseannow.com to make a forum all about me. So far no luck. But maybe I could circulate a petition to see if that would get the powers that be to change their collective mind. Until then, I'm going to stick to the issues. Which is what the moderators recommend.

The mods did make a forum just for you, it's called Political Soapbox, but you won't stay in it, so a bit of a fail.

2 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

The mods did make a forum just for you, it's called Political Soapbox, but you won't stay in it, so a bit of a fail.

So now you're the spokesperson for the moderators?

Funny all those crying out loud on global warming, are precisely those who refuse nuclear power plant developpments. A 14 year is aware that nuclear energy is the cleanest energy in the world regarding C02 etc. Of course there is the nuclear waste that is a seperate issue but far easier to contain then global warming due to fossil fuels and mainly all the wars that are around.

15 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

You know, I've been pushing for aseannow.com to make a forum all about me. So far no luck. But maybe I could circulate a petition to see if that would get the powers that be to change their collective mind. Until then, I'm going to stick to the issues. Which is what the moderators recommend.

You got owned.

Just now, TedG said:

You got owned.

You got nothing.

3 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

You got nothing.

LOL