Climate Change:

2014 Was The Hottest Year On Record Globally By Far (Climate Progress)

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has announced that 2014 was the hottest year in more than 120 years of record-keeping — by far. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is expected to make a similar call in a couple of weeks and so is the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

As the JMA graph shows, there has been no “hiatus” or “pause” in warming. In fact, there has not even been a slowdown. Yes, in JMA’s ranking of hottest years, 1998 is in (a distant) second place — but 1998 was an outlier as the graph shows. In fact, 1998 was boosted above the trendline by an unusual super-El Niño. It is usually the combination of the underlying long-term warming trend and the regional El Niño warming pattern that leads to new global temperature records.

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