2022 Was One of the , Hottest Years on Record.<br />NBC News reports that on Jan. 12, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...<br />NBC News reports that on Jan. 12, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...<br />... both released reports detailing <br />Earth's record-setting temperatures.<br />NASA found that 2022 was the planet's fifth-warmest year on record, while <br />NOAA said it was the sixth-warmest.<br />NASA found that 2022 was the planet's fifth-warmest year on record, while <br />NOAA said it was the sixth-warmest.<br />The difference between fifth and sixth in our ranking is on the order of a hundredth of a degree Celsius. <br />That’s not a robust change, Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute <br />for Space Studies, via news briefing.<br />We try not to make too much of the specific rankings. The key thing is the long-term trends, and they’re very consistent from one record [to the next], Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute <br />for Space Studies, via news briefing.<br />Both agencies determined that the past <br />nine years have been the warmest since <br />1880 when record-keeping began.<br />In an attempt to avoid the most <br />dire consequences of climate change, .<br />the 2015 Paris Agreement attempted to limit global warming by 1.5 degrees Celsius <br />(2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).<br />We’re getting kind of close to that, Russell Vose, chief of climate monitoring at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, via statement.<br />A U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report found that global warming may exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius by the year 2040
