2015 smashed heat records

Warming and El Niño pushed global temperatures up

El Niño warming map

HEATING UP  The ongoing strong El Niño and global warming fueled by fossil fuel emissions made 2015 the hottest year on record, scientists report. Blue areas were cooler than their long-term averages; red areas were warmer.

NOAA

Things are definitely heating up. Spurred by global warming and a “super El Niño,” 2015 smashed records, becoming by far Earth’s hottest year since record-keeping began in 1880.