http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nasa-determines-2014-warmest-year-in-modern-record/index.html

The rocket scientists (& NOAA and many others) have observed, checked and found that last year was the hottest year on record yet.

I hope you don’t mind, Greg Laden if I use this old post as one of a good number of examples of how us so-called “alarmists”* often actually under-estimate and err on the side of caution in their predictions which can fall short of what actually happens.

IOW. Things are often going to be – indeed have been – worse than the climatologists and those supporting the consensus on Human-Induced Rapid Global Overheating (HIRGO) have predicted.

* As if its a crime or somehow wrong to raise the alarm when there’s good reason to do so. Like “do-gooder” its a word thrown out as an insult that really shouldn’t be seen as such.

State o[f] emergency in Siberia’s largest permafrost region — due to wildfires.