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Demonstrable bull-pucky, starting from the very first sentence: “. . . In 2016, Earth reached its highest temperature on record, trouncing the record set just a year earlier in 2015 . . .” Now if you dig deep (and you have to dig deep, because nobody reports actual numbers) you’ll find that the NOAA global average temperature for 2016 was 0.01 degrees higher than what they reported for 2015. So apparently “trounced” is a verb the connotations of which are a mystery to the NEA.

Not only is that number scientifically meaningless in any practical sense given the experimental error expected in these measurements, but it’s almost certainly fudged, given that NOAA used temperature data from ocean freighter boiler intake tubes to “adjust” the data derived from buoys specifically-designed to obtain ocean-based temperatures.

But don’t expect the NEA to encourage anyone to teach the little snowflakes those details.