2016 was the warmest year since humans began keeping records, by a wide margin. Global average temperatures were extremely hot in the first few months of the year, pushed up by a large El Niño event. Global surface temperatures dropped in the second half of 2016, yet still show a continuation of global warming.
This is the third record-breaking year in a row.
Berkeley Earth's work has been published in Science Advances (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601207) (DX)
Also at NASA (Javascript required) and the Washington Post.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @06:04AM
EVERY year is the hottest year on record, when you're allowed to make any 'adjustments' to the data you want.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/09/will-2016-be-the-hottest-year-on-record.php [powerlineblog.com]
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday January 21 2017, @07:55AM
EVERY year is the hottest year on record, when you're allowed to make any 'adjustments' to the data you want.
That's exactly the proposition Berkeley Earth (the group cited in the summary) set out to prove:
[...] on 18 January 2017, the non-governmental research group Berkeley Earth (which was originally founded to investigate climate researchers’ claims that a group of Berkeley physicists felt merited skepticism) released the results of their own analysis, which also pegged 2016 as the hottest year on record. However, their analysis disputes the conclusion that the three past years have been warmest, ranking 2010 above 2014.
-- http://www.snopes.com/2017/01/18/2016-was-warmest-year-in-recorded-history/ [snopes.com]
Berkeley Earth are sceptics; you are saying they're not sceptical enough; you've not offered any support for your claim.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday January 21 2017, @08:20AM
Actually, the other poster had not specifically said that Berkeley Earth are wrong, and the editors had added to the summary a link to a Washington Post article which discusses NOAA; the OP's linked page is critical of previous NOAA pronouncements. My point about Berkeley Earth stands though.