2016 set a new global temperature record as the hottest year since record-keeping began in the 1880s. This makes 2016 the third consecutive record-breaking year and the seventeenth of all time, sixteen of which have occurred since 2000. The data were released by the World Meteorological Organization (WHO), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). To learn more, NOAA, NYT, CNN.