It ’s official : 2014 is the hottest year since we human being started memorialize temperatures on Earth , according totwo independent analysesby NASA and NOAA . Last year ’s global temperature let out record a book set in 2010 and , before that , in 2005 . We are on a unwavering march toward a strong Earth .
January in the northern cerebral hemisphere is perhaps not the best time to prompt people how warm the previous year was , but 2014 wasfull of hot weather anomalies . Europe had its warmest year on criminal record , Antarctic and Arctic sea ice extent were low , Australia had its fond spring on record , and on and on .
To get into climate nerdery for a second , this year ’s record temperatures happened in spitefulness of there being no El Niño , a weather pattern that typically sum a lot of heat into the Earth ’s ambiance . Temperatures will always fluctuate yr from year , in part because of blueprint like El Niño , but the prospicient - term pattern is well-defined . Earth is getting hot .
Climate change denialists can keep pretend none of this is man - made , but the eternal rest of us be intimate better . 2014 ’s record - breaking temperatures are only yet another monitor that we as a species have to do something about it . [ NOAA , NASA ]
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