2021 was tied for the sixth warmest year on NASA’s record, stretching more than a century. Because the record is global, not every place on Earth experienced the sixth warmest year on record. Some places had record-high temperatures, and we saw record droughts, floods and fires around the globe.
Credits: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio/Kathryn Mersmann
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to independent analyses done by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Tylar Greene
Headquarters, Washington
Peter Jacobs
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
