Climate puzzle persists with unexpectedly warm January

Mark PoyntingClimate and environment researcherReutersLast month's Los Angeles fires were one of the costliest disasters in US historyLast month was the world's warmest January on record and raised further questions about the pace of climate change, scientists say.January 2025 had been expected to be slightly cooler than January 2024 because of a shift away from a natural weather pattern in the Pacific known as…