Nature World: Yea, so 2014's December may have been bone-chillingly cold for some parts of the world. But when measurements from every corner of the Earth from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 were finally combined and averaged, it was revealed that this past year was easily the hottest ever recorded.
That's at least according to Japan's Meteorological Agency, one of the four primary record-keeping organizations that routinely measure, gather, and asses net temperature data from across the globe. This data includes both terrestrial...