January 2016: Shattering the Global Warming Monthly Record

Hot enough for ya? It should be: January 2016 was the hottest January globally since records began in 1880. And it didn't just edge out the previous record holder for January, it destroyed it. The temperatures used here are land and ocean measurements analyzed by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, using NOAA temperature measuring stations across the world. These are extremely high quality and reliable datasets of global temperature measurements -- despite the fallacious cries of a fe...