Gavin Schmidt at NASA is 99% certain that 2016 is the hottest year ever. The animation below flashes between the list of stations which reached 110 degrees this summer, and the same list from 80 years ago, when the climate was very cold according to Gavin.
Don’t take my word for it though. The EPA heatwave graph is very similar to the one I generated. Their graph isn’t quite right, but pretty darn close for government work.
