January 15, 2021 Scientific equivalent of “I did not pay off that porn star.” If you’re still a climate denier, this is the length you have to go to. The Global Warming Policy Forum, in response to yesterday’s announcement that 2020 tied for hottest year in the record, produced the graph above. Global Warming Policy Forum: (I’m not giving them a link, find it yourself) There has been no significant warming trend for 5 years. Every year in the middle of January various organisations, The UK Met Office, NASA, NOAA, etc. release their estimates of the annual average global temperature of our planet.