NASA: Easily the hottest Spring, and the hottest Jan-May on record

Last month tied May 1998 as the hottest on record in the NASA dataset. More significantly, following fast on the heels of easily the hottest April–and hottest Jan-April–on record, it's also the hottest Jan-May on record [click on figure to enlarge]. Also, the combined land-surface air and sea-surface water temperature anomaly for March-April-May was 0.73°C above the 1951-1980 mean, blowing out the old record of 0.65°C set in 2002. The record temperatures we're seeing now are especially impressive because we've been in "the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century." It's just hard to stop the march of manmade global warming, well, other than by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, that is. Most significantly, the 12-month global temperature [anomaly] grew to 0.66°C–easily the highest on record.