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2012 ranks among the ten hottest years on record; all ten years have occurred since 1998.
NASA images by Robert Simmon, based on data from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Met Office Hadley Centre/Climatic Research Unit, and the Japanese Meteorological Agency. Caption by Patrick Lynch and Mike Carlowicz.
Published January 16, 2013 Data acquired January 1 - December 31, 2012