BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- Scientists calculate 2025 was one of the three hottest years on record, along with 2024 and 2023. In 2025, the average global temperature was about 1.47 degrees Celsius (2.65 Fahrenheit) higher than from 1850 to 1900, the period scientists use as a reference point, sinc e it precedes the industrial era in [...] ...read more read less