1// 2014, the warmest year on record
Towards the end of 2014 the BBC published this article suggesting that 2014 was set to be the warmest year on record.
It initiated the article identifying that the global average air temperatures for the first 10 months of the year had been 0.57 degrees Celsius above the average, whilst up until November in the UK we had produced an average temperature of 1.6 degrees Celsius above the long-term average. There was certainly a noticeable difference in the temperature throughout the Autumn months of 2014.
Then by the end of the year, NOAA published their annual global climate analysis which confirmed that “the year 2014 was the warmest year across global land and ocean surfaces since records began in 1880”. This meant it broke the previous records of 2005 and 2010. It’s scary to see that the top 10 warmest years have been since…
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