Decoded Science: The 2014 land-and-sea temperature anomaly map shows that four continents were nearly entirely above normal. The major cold spots were eastern north America and western Asia. Analysis courtesy of NOAA.
Possessing a sizable lead after 11 months, the forces of Global Warming could have coasted to a warmest-year-ever with a desultory December.
Instead, the sixth monthly record in the last 8 months propelled 2014 to a record-warm global land-and-sea average temperature that has both advocates and...