2017 Among Warmest Years On Record (npr.org)

2017 was among the warmest years on record, according to new data released by NASA and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. From a report: The planet's global surface temperature last year was second warmest since 1880, NASA says. NOAA calls it the third warmest year on record, due to slight variation in the ways that they analyze temperatures. Both put 2017 behind 2016's record temperatures. And "both analyses show that the five warmest years on record have all taken place since 2010," NASA said in a press release. The trend is seen most dramatically in the Arctic, NASA says, as sea ice continues to melt.

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Re: And 2018 has been the coldest one on record

[sexconker]

there are hundreds of thousands of years of data

Nope. There's a few decades of very rough guesses for temperatures that far back. We have at best about a century of actual data with even weak assurances of precision or accuracy. Accurate, rigorous data collection only goes back a few decades, and the nutjobs running the scam love "adjusting" that data and tossing out the original data.

If you can't show your data was accurate or reliable, you can't use it. You don't get to adjust it to what you think it should have been because you later noticed an issue with your instruments.