claim: “ NASA concurred with NOAA, also declaring 2016 the warmest year on record in its own data set that tracks the temperatures at the surface of the planet’s land and oceans, and expressing ‘greater than 95 percent certainty’ in that conclusion.
evidence: The global average and combined land and ocean surface temperature, show a warming of 0.85 [ 0.65 to 1.06 ] °C, in the period 1880 to 2012, based on multiple independently produced datasets.