2020 Is Tied for the Hottest Year on Record, NASA Says

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People watch the Walbridge fire, part of the larger LNU Lightning Complex fire, from a vineyard in Healdsburg, California on August 20, 2020.
People watch the Walbridge Fire, part of the larger LNU Lightning Complex fires, from a vineyard in Healdsburg, California, on August 20, 2020.

BYSharon Zhang, TruthoutPUBLISHEDJanuary 15, 2021SHAREShare via FacebookShare via TwitterShare via Email

2020 Is Tied for the Hottest Year on Record, NASA Says

2020 tied with 2016 for the hottest year on record, signaling a dangerous trend in the ongoing climate crisis, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) announced on Thursday.

The year’s global temperature average very narrowly exceeded that of 2016, but not by a statistically significant amount,according to NASA. The average temperature was 1.02 degrees Celsius above the baseline mean and represents an alarming amount of warming,according to experts.

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Other organizations have also reported similar results for 2020’s average temperature.The

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