NASA Ranks 2020 As Hottest Year On Record; NOAA Barely 2nd Place, Met Second To 2016

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Last year was by a narrow margin the hottest ever on record, according to Nasa, with the climate crisis stamping its mark on 2020 through soaring temperatures, enormous hurricanes and unprecedented wildfires.

The average global land and ocean temperature in 2020 was the highest ever measured, Nasa announced on Thursday, edging out the previous record set in 2016 by less than a tenth of a degree.

Due to slightly different methods used, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) judged 2020 as fractionally cooler than 2016, while the UK Met Office also put 2020 in a close second place. The European Union’s climate observation program puts the two years in a dead heat.

Regardless of these minor differences, all the datasets again underlined the long-term heating up of the planet due to the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation and other human activities. The world’s seven hottest years on record have now all occurred since 2014, with the 10 warmest all taking place in the last 15 years. There have now been 44 consecutive years where global temperatures have been above the 20th-century average.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/14/2020-hottest-year-on-record-nasa

[BigmanPigman]

1. We lost 4 years due to the fucking moron.

So much damage to so many people and animals in record time. I hate that fuck face with a passion!!!!

[progree]

2. See, SEE! they can't even agree on which was the warmer year. 3 different answers. Proves they

don't know what they're doing. The data is bad, blah blah, probably made up, but we caught them, in their contradiction, probably all 4 are lying...

NOAA and MET judged 2020 as cooler than 2016
EU judged them in a dead heat
NASA judged 2020 as warmer than 2016

Sarc off. No doubt something very similar to this is actually being said in many variations all over the right wing internets and webs.

[nam78_two]

3. K&R.nt