2015 was the hottest year on record – until 2016

Credit: NASA

2014 was the hottest year on record – until 2015.¹ Then during 2016, a series of record hot months threatened another record year² – which NASA & NOAA have just reported, came to pass.

NASA – “NASA, NOAA Data Show 2016 Warmest Year on Record Globally”
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-noaa-data-show-2016-warmest-year-on-record-globally

Australian Broadcasting Corporation – “2016 crowned hottest year on record: Australia needs to get heat smart”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-19/2016-hottest-year-on-record-australia-needs-to-get-heat-smart/8194182

New York Times – “Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/science/earth-highest-temperature-record.html?_r=0

Washington Post – “U.S. scientists officially declare 2016 the hottest year on record. That makes three in a row.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/18/u-s-scientists-officially-declare-2016-the-hottest-year-on-record-that-makes-three-in-a-row/?utm_term=.0cbe69e7aa27

Green Car Reports – “2016 was planet's hottest year on record, third new high in a row”
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1108420_2016-was-planets-hottest-year-on-record-third-new-high-in-a-row
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¹ Hitchhiker's Guide 2 Tech: “2014 was the hottest year on record – until 2015”, https://hhg2tech.blogspot.com/2016/07/2014-was-hottest-year-on-record-until.html

² Hitchhiker's Guide 2 Tech: “July 2016 was the hottest month ever recorded”, https://hhg2tech.blogspot.com/2016/08/july-2016-was-hottest-month-ever.html / NASA NOAA data 2016 warmest year on record globally Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures warmest since modern record keeping began 1880 independent analyses NASA National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration NOAA globally averaged temperatures 2016 1.78 degrees Fahrenheit 0.99 degrees Celsius warmer mid-20th century mean 2016 third year in a row set a new record for global average surface temperatures 2016 temperatures continue long-term warming trend analisis analyses scientists NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies GISS New York NOAA scientists concur finding 2016 warmest year on record separate independent analyses data weather station locations measurement practices change over time uncertainties interpretation specific year-to-year global mean temperature differences taking this into account NASA estimates 2016 warmest year greater than 95 percent certainty 2016 remarkably third record year in a row in this series GISS Director Gavin Schmidt record years every year ongoing long-term warming trend is clear planet’s average surface temperature risen 2.0 degrees Fahrenheit 1.1 degrees Celsius since late 19th century change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide other human-made emissions into the atmosphere /