Hottest May on record
July 3, 2014
Disturbing news from the most recent State of the Climate report from NOAA (the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), indicating that global temperatures for May, 2014 were the warmest ever recorded for this month.
Of even greater concern is that this is far from an isolated piece of data. This May marked the 39th consecutive May and 351st consecutive month with a global temperature above the 20th century average. The last below-average temperature for May occurred in 1976 and…