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2018 Was the 4th Hottest Year on Record: NASA

BURNING UP

The top 3 hottest years were 2015, 2016, and 2017.

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Last year was the fourth-warmest year on record—losing narrowly to 2015, 2016, and 2017—according to a Wednesday press release from NASA. “2018 is yet again an extremely warm year on top of a long-term global warming trend,” Gavin Schmidt, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in...

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