“ nasa concurred with noaa, also declaring 2016 the warmest year on record in its own data set that tracks the temperatures at the surface of the planet’s land and oceans, and expressing ‘greater than 95 percent certainty’ in that conclusion.
“ nasa concurred with noaa, also declaring 2016 the warmest year on record in its own data set that tracks the temperatures at the surface of the planet’s land and oceans, and expressing ‘greater than 95 percent certainty’ in that conclusion.
instrumental temperature record:22
consistent with schmidt's comment, the nasa / noaa announcement stated that "globally-averaged temperatures in 2016 were 1.78 degrees fahrenheit (0.99 degrees celsius) warmer than the mid-20th century mean" and that the impact of el niño warming was estimated to have "increased the annual global temperature anomaly for 2016 by 0.2 degrees fahrenheit (0.12 degrees celsius)."