The US space agency NASA has published its annual report on global temperatures. Its data correlates with other similar documents and confirms that the last three years have been the hottest in history. However, the agency decided not to name the reason for this.
According to Euronews, the omission of key terms has outraged scientists and climatologists. Experts directly call this a continuation of the Trump administration's anti-environmental policy.
Harsh American-style censorship
The space agency "forgot" to use even such a term as "global warming." Among the censored words and phrases are "climate change," "fossil fuels," and "emissions."
In contrast, researchers in reports from other organizations do not hide either the problem of warming or its root causes. In particular, according to data from the European Copernicus program (previously reported on by EcoPolitics), the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is to blame for the increase in heat. This is due to the growth in emissions and the fact that natural ecosystems, particularly forests, are absorbing less and less CO2.
Is the temperature still rising?
NASA notes in its report that 2025 was slightly warmer than 2023, guaranteeing them the title of the second hottest years in the entire observation period:
"According to NASA scientists' analysis, these two years are actually linked in time. Since records began in 1880, 2024 remains the hottest year in recorded history."
In previous reports, prior to Trump's presidency, NASA linked rising temperatures to global natural phenomena. These include heat waves, forest fires, and floods. The space agency, which positioned itself as "independent," was not shy about stating outright: "This global warming is caused by human activity."
The US's anti-environmental rollback continues
Experts believe that the limited vocabulary used in the agency's new report is consistent with the Trump administration's ongoing fight against global climate policy.
For example, in December, the Environmental Protection Agency simply "cleaned up" references to fossil fuels from its website.
"It is unclear what climate institutions remain for Trump to try to eliminate, but few doubt that if he finds them, he will pursue them. Climate change will not stop because the US administration does not believe in it. America's response to climate disasters will be worse if it does not understand why extreme weather events and other climate impacts are occurring," says Mike Scott of Carbon Copy Communications.
US actions could trigger a global return to fossil fuels. EcoPolitics previously reported that such concerns are raised by the fact that the United States seized control over Venezuela for oil extraction.
Earlier in January, Donald Trump withdrew the US from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and a number of other international agreements and organizations related to environmental protection.
In general, the new administration remains consistent in its denial of climate change and rolling back of mitigation measures. On the very first day of Trump’s second term, the United States withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement, which became the opening act of a prolonged anti-environmental campaign.
