Hottest start to a calendar year on record
NASA updated their global temperature data for April and it's hot. Really hot. As in the last time it was this hot may well be the Holocene Climatic Optimum. April 2014 shattered April 2010's record by a full 0.24ºC, coming in at 1.11ºC above the 1951-1980 baseline. That is, simply put, jaw-dropping.