Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin

Mongabay
By <a class="author-link"…Jan 21, 2016, 5:50 pm135 pts
Earth’s surface temperatures were warmer in 2015 than any other year since modern record keeping began in 1880, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced yesterday. Not only that, but 2015 global temperatures beat the previous high mark, set in 2014, by 0.23 degrees…

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