Post and Courier: NASA recently stirred a minor controversy with a release proclaiming 2014 as the warmest year on record. The claim was picked up by President Obama in last weeks State of the Union speech.
Not so fast, according to Berkeley Earth, an independent climate think tank in California. It said 2014 was only nominally the warmest because within the margin of error, it is tied with 2005 and 2010 and so we cant be certain it set a new record.
Either way, though, the 2014 numbers extend a pattern...