Despite recent blizzards on the High Plains, 2015 will be the hottest year on record, according to The New York Times.The sweltering year was capped off with temperatures on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day that were far above average across much of the United States.
Last month was the warmest November on record, and the seventh month in a row to break a global temperature record. Thirteen of the fourteen hottest years in memory have been recorded in the last decade and a half.
A vast majority of scientists believe that global warming is being caused by human activities. Yet many US lawmakers still turn a blind eye to the climate science. Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas, for instance, continues to claim that the science is part of a nefarious agenda on the part of the White House. Smith is chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and thus would be in a position to address the trend if he chose to do so.