Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) recently announced that January 2017 was the third warmest January on record since 1880, when the record for modern global temperatures began. January 2017 was 0.92° C warmer than the average January temperatures from 1951-1980. The monthly analysis of global temperatures is compiled from publicly available read more January 2017 was Third-warmest January on Record