Last month has entered the books as the warmest May in records stretching back to 1880, according to NASA's monthly analysis of global temperatures, published today.
By NASA's reckoning, our planet was a little more 1.8 degrees warmer in May than the long-term average for the month.
With NASA's verdict today, two out of three independent analyses show the globe experiencing record warmth in May. The other was published earlier this month by Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
