Berkeley Earth releases temperature results for 2014:
‘Berkeley Earth has constructed an estimate of the global average temperature during 2014, including land and sea.
The key findings are:
1. The global surface temperature average (land and sea) for 2014 was nominally the warmest since the global instrumental record began in 1850; however, within the margin of error, it is tied with 2005 and 2010 and so we can’t be certain it set a new record.
2. For the land, 2014 was nominally the 4th warmest year since 1753 (when the land surface temperature record began)
3. For the sea, 2014 was the warmest year on record since 1850
4. For the contiguous United States, 2014 ranked nominally as the 38th warmest year on record since 1850.’