The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationannouncedyesterday that 2015 was the 2d hot year ever put down in the United States , with a major last - moment boost fromour capriciously warm Christmas holiday time of year .

It was also a record - breaking year for fervour , as the US Department of AgricultureannouncedWednesday . For the first time in history , wildfires scorched over 10 million estate across the country . The Pacific Northwest and Alaska were hit hard , with over 20 massive fires burning through 100,000 landed estate of land .

Both NOAA and NASA are expected to announce that 2015 was the hot year on record globally . That ’ll be no surprise to anyone who has record our coverage ofhottest monthafter monthafter monthafter calendar month .

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El Niñois partially responsible for 2015 ’s global heat wafture — the US also see record precipitation in December , another expected El Niño resultant — but with14 of the 15 hot years on recordoccurring in the 21st century , the logical argument is that Earth is sit on a movement line . raging , fiery geezerhood like 2015 are the time to come .

That ’s a fact that many Americans still have n’t accepted , harmonise to astudypublished in Global Environmental Change this week , which shows that clime science denial is alive and flourish in the United States . “ We find little support for the claim that ‘ the era of science denial is over , ’ ” the study concludes .

Indeed , a2014 Gallup surveyshowed that one in four Americans still do n’t trust human activity is causing Earth ’s climate to heat up . How could public views be so at odds with the overwhelming consensus of science ? bare : the anti - climate propaganda machine is working harder than ever .

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The raw science denial study , which see at over 16,000 document put out online between 1998 and 2013 , found that buttoned-down anti - climate radical like the Heartland Institute have exponentially storm up their climate modification misinformation military campaign in late year . The study also reveals a broad faulting in the mood communication strategy of bourgeois thinktanks since the early 2000s . Rather than attacking climate policy , these mathematical group are now far more concerned with cave basic skill .

It ’s probably no surprise to hear that many of the 19 thinktanks profile in the study receive funding from fogy fuel pursuit , including oil color giant Exxon , which is currently in the midst of an embarrassing public probe followingrevelationsthat the companycovered up its own climate change research in the 1970s .

In spite of the well - funded effort to rewrite history and skill in the United States , leaders from 190 state did manage to come together in Paris this past December andstrike a historic agreementto end the use of fossil fuels this century . As we embark on what ’s widely expected to be another record - smashingly hot year , let ’s go for that the momentum we gained in Paris does n’t get trampled by the denial machine that would see the world burn before giving up oil .

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[ NOAA , USDA , The Guardian ]

Top : Tree cauterize in a wildfire near Omak , Washington , on Aug. 27 , 2015 . Image Credit : Ted S. Warren / AP

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