Washington Post: This morning officials from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency hosted a joint press conference to announce that the agencies' analyses of 2014 temperature data showed that the year was the warmest yet recorded. Both agencies indicated that the warming was driven by heat from the oceans, which were also the hottest ever recorded. Perhaps most notable about 2014's warmth is that it occurred without an El Niño event, which the other recent years of high warmth all had. In both analyses, the global average temperature was just fractionally warmer than the previous warmest years. The continued warming adds further support for the effects of human-driven climate change.
