2021 Tied for the Sixth Warmest Year on Record, NASA Finds

  • Released Thursday, January 13, 2022
  • Updated Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 2:15PM
  • ID: 14066

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2021 was tied for the sixth warmest year on NASA’s record, stretching more than a century.

But, what is a temperature record?

GISTEMP, NASA’s global temperature analysis, takes in millions of observations from instruments on weather stations, ships and ocean buoys, and Antarctic research stations, to determine how much warmer or cooler Earth is on average from year to year.
Stretching back to 1880, NASA’s record shows a clear warming trend. However, individual weather events and La Niña — a pattern of cooler waters in the Pacific that was responsible for slightly cooling 2021’s average temperature — can affect individual years.

Because the record is global, not every place on Earth experienced the sixth warmest year on record. Some places had record-high temperatures, and we saw record droughts, floods and fires around the globe.

2021 tied for Earth’s sixth warmest year on record, continuing a long-term trend. The last decade was the hottest since at least 1880.

Complete transcript available.

2021 empató como el sexto año más cálido de la Tierra, lo que continúa una tendencia a largo plazo. La última década fue la más cálida por lo menos desde 1880.

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