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2014 Was the Warmest Year in the Modern Record

Separate analyses by NASA and NOAA agree that the past year was hotter than any other since 1880. The ten warmest years in the instrumental record, with the exception of 1998, have now occurred since 2000.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story 2014 Was the Warmest Year in the Modern Record.

NASA images by Kevin Ward, Jesse Allen, and Joshua Stevens, based on data from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. (Images were built off previous work by Gavin Schmidt and Robert Simmon.) Caption by Patrick Lynch, with Mike Carlowicz.

Published January 17, 2015
Data acquired 2014

Source:: In situ Measurement