Jan 19, 2017 - Energy & Environment
Mr. President-elect, please Sharpie this
- Mike Allen, author of Axios AM

Karin van der Wiel / NOAA / Princeton University / AP
In case you didn't see the N.Y. Times' two-column lead, "For Third Year, The Earth In 2016 Set Heat Record: Threat to Society and Nature is Rising — Scale of Shift Startles Scientists," it's getting hot. "NASA's calculations suggested that the planet had warmed by well over a half-degree Fahrenheit from 2013 to 2016... the largest temperature increase over a three-year period in the NASA record, which begins in 1880 ... NOAA's records show only one other instance when global temperature records were set three years in a row: in 1939, 1940 and 1941. … 1941 now ranks as only the 37th-warmest year on record."