It's Official: 2014 Ranks as World's Hottest Year on Record
2014 marked 38th consecutive year of above-average global temperatures.
2014 was the Earth's warmest year since records began in 1880, according to reports from federal scientists published Friday.
The finding reached by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA offers more confirmation of the planet's warming trend as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
NOAA stated that 2014's combined global land and ocean surface temperature was 1.24degF above the 20th century average, surpassing the previous warmest year record set by 2005 and 2010.
Looking at the areas separately, the ocean was record warm, while the global land temperature was the fourth warmest.
Further, the 20 warmest years all occurred in the past 20 years, and there have been 38 consecutive years of above-average global temperatures.
"This is the latest in a series of warm years, in a series of warm decades," stated Gavin Schmidt, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York. "While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases."
Commenting on the record-breaking year, meteorologists Jeff Masters and Bob Henson wrote:
Climate change is already causing significant impacts to people and ecosystems, and these impacts will grow much more severe in the coming years. New research is painting a clearer picture of the tough decisions that lie ahead if we hope to reduce the serious risks that we and our planet face. As we approach the critical negotiations in Paris in December to hammer out a new binding climate change treaty, we should keep in mind that we can choose to take economically sensible steps to lessen the damage of climate change, and the cost of inaction is much higher than the cost of action.
This video from NOAA gives a visual image of the Earth's temperature deviation from the 20th century average:
2014 Was the Warmest Year on RecordAnalysis by NOAA shows that in 2014, the combined land and ocean surface temperature was 1.24°F (0.69°C) above the 20th ...
NASA Goddard offers this video summary of the new findings:
NASA | 2014 Warmest Year On RecordThe year 2014 now ranks as the warmest on record since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA scientists. Nine of the 10 ...
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2014 was the Earth's warmest year since records began in 1880, according to reports from federal scientists published Friday.
The finding reached by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA offers more confirmation of the planet's warming trend as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
NOAA stated that 2014's combined global land and ocean surface temperature was 1.24degF above the 20th century average, surpassing the previous warmest year record set by 2005 and 2010.
Looking at the areas separately, the ocean was record warm, while the global land temperature was the fourth warmest.
Further, the 20 warmest years all occurred in the past 20 years, and there have been 38 consecutive years of above-average global temperatures.
"This is the latest in a series of warm years, in a series of warm decades," stated Gavin Schmidt, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York. "While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases."
Commenting on the record-breaking year, meteorologists Jeff Masters and Bob Henson wrote:
Climate change is already causing significant impacts to people and ecosystems, and these impacts will grow much more severe in the coming years. New research is painting a clearer picture of the tough decisions that lie ahead if we hope to reduce the serious risks that we and our planet face. As we approach the critical negotiations in Paris in December to hammer out a new binding climate change treaty, we should keep in mind that we can choose to take economically sensible steps to lessen the damage of climate change, and the cost of inaction is much higher than the cost of action.
This video from NOAA gives a visual image of the Earth's temperature deviation from the 20th century average:
2014 Was the Warmest Year on RecordAnalysis by NOAA shows that in 2014, the combined land and ocean surface temperature was 1.24°F (0.69°C) above the 20th ...
NASA Goddard offers this video summary of the new findings:
NASA | 2014 Warmest Year On RecordThe year 2014 now ranks as the warmest on record since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA scientists. Nine of the 10 ...
2014 was the Earth's warmest year since records began in 1880, according to reports from federal scientists published Friday.
The finding reached by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA offers more confirmation of the planet's warming trend as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
NOAA stated that 2014's combined global land and ocean surface temperature was 1.24degF above the 20th century average, surpassing the previous warmest year record set by 2005 and 2010.
Looking at the areas separately, the ocean was record warm, while the global land temperature was the fourth warmest.
Further, the 20 warmest years all occurred in the past 20 years, and there have been 38 consecutive years of above-average global temperatures.
"This is the latest in a series of warm years, in a series of warm decades," stated Gavin Schmidt, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York. "While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases."
Commenting on the record-breaking year, meteorologists Jeff Masters and Bob Henson wrote:
Climate change is already causing significant impacts to people and ecosystems, and these impacts will grow much more severe in the coming years. New research is painting a clearer picture of the tough decisions that lie ahead if we hope to reduce the serious risks that we and our planet face. As we approach the critical negotiations in Paris in December to hammer out a new binding climate change treaty, we should keep in mind that we can choose to take economically sensible steps to lessen the damage of climate change, and the cost of inaction is much higher than the cost of action.
This video from NOAA gives a visual image of the Earth's temperature deviation from the 20th century average:
2014 Was the Warmest Year on RecordAnalysis by NOAA shows that in 2014, the combined land and ocean surface temperature was 1.24°F (0.69°C) above the 20th ...
NASA Goddard offers this video summary of the new findings:
NASA | 2014 Warmest Year On RecordThe year 2014 now ranks as the warmest on record since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA scientists. Nine of the 10 ...