The Earth’s temperature record was broken in 2014, 2015 and again in 2016, and a new study by Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann shows that the odds of that happening without human-caused global warming are, literally, one-in-a-million.

The study, published earlier this month in Geophysical Research Letters, found that the global temperature trifecta would have been almost impossible without the heat-trapping impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas.

But the probability of setting three consecutive records since 2000 was up to 50 percent higher if anthropogenic warming is part of the calculation.

“What this study shows is that the string of record-breaking years — three in a row — is extremely unlikely to have happened without accounting for human-caused warming,” said Mr. Mann ofthe  Pennsylvania State University. “So when we people ask,’what is…