Gosport Times: Earth last year wasn?t just the hottest year on record, but it left a century of temperature high marks in its hot dust. According to NOAA, all of the globe's surfaces - our oceans, mountains, deserts, and plains - were about 1.62 Fahrenheit warmer than the average global temperature for the entire 20th century. For context, the only other time that a new record has been greater than the old record by this large a margin was in 1998, officials said.
The finding was released by NASA and the National...