One for the Record Books: 2014 Officially Hottest Year

It’s official: 2014 has taken the title of hottest year on record. That ranking comes courtesy of data released Monday by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the first of four major global temperature recordkeepers to release their data for last year. The upward march of the world’s average temperature since 1891 is a trademark of human-influenced global warming with 2014 being the latest stop on the climb. All 10 of the hottest years have come since 1998.

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/record-2014-hottest-year-18502

Cold records, meanwhile, are a vanishing breed. It has been more than 100 years since the planet last had a record-cold month. Tiny areas of the planet ( like the United States ) have greater variability and more recent cold records, but that is irrelevant when considering global records where most natural cycles cancel out.

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New wind farm power generating capacity is set to double in 2015, contributing nearly 5 percent of all U.S. power generation.

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/u.s.-at-brink-of-turning-point-in-ene...

If you think that it is time that we stop permanently increasing the temperature of the planet, please let your legislators know :

http://house.gov/

http://www.senate.gov/

http://www.carbontax.org/

http://350.org/

Phil