http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-19/climate-change-us-agency-says-march-hottest-globally-on-record/6403600

“The period of January to March was also the warmest on record, according to the monthly report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)”.

(Excerpt from above linked article.)

If this keeps up and if we don’t see an unusually cold month or two globally (& who would bet on that?) well ..

It seriously scares me what’s very likely coming after the likes of the Sampson flat fire relatively close to my suburb earlier this year :

http://www.capitalbay.com/australia/658949-nasa-image-shows-landscape-left-scarred-by-south-australia-s-devastating-bushfires-as-firefighters-brace-for-d-day-of-searing-temperatures-and-high-winds.html

If not this year then next and knowing things are bound to keep getting worse. I almost wish it could be denied – but of course it can’t be. Not realistically or scientifically anyhow.

Indeed…. I had been able to figure that out after some work. And, of course, you climatologists use these OCUs because you are all part of the great climate conspiracy – as everybody knows!

BTW, I published your graph in Italian at: http://ugobardi.blogspot.it/2015/04/il-2015-sara-piu-caldo-del-2014.html. Thanks for this post – and even Italy has been assimilated. Resistance is futile!!!

Best

Ugo

But seriously, 100ths degree C anomaly relative to 20th century average.