August 20, 2017
Hottest year on record? Not exactly - the chart shows a different story
By Dale Leuck
Reports, such as one indicating 2016 to be the hottest year on record, draw on the temperature anomalies from a data set maintained by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP). GISTEMP is “an estimate of global surface temperature change…using current data files from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).” The entire 137-year monthly data set, from 1880 through June 2017, in degrees Celsius anomalies (deviations from the corresponding 1951-1980 means), as updated monthly, is located in both spreadsheet and text forms.
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