Global heat records falling like dominoes as world heads to Paris

It's a simple recipe. Take one stable climate. Pour in 62,000,000 kilograms of heat-trapping pollution. Repeat every minute of every day. Bake in rising temperatures. Now, after a several decades of pouring in over a trillion tonnes of climate pollution, we find ourselves seriously cooking in 2015.

Just how hot are we getting? Take a look at this impressive list of global all-time-hottest-ever-recorded records that have fallen in just the last twelve months:

Hottest calendar year ever recorded
Hottest 12 month period ever recorded
Hottest December ever recorded
Hottest February
Hottest March
Hottest May
Hottest June
Hottest July
Hottest August
Hottest September
Hottest October
Hottest Northern Hemisphere
Hottest Southern Hemisphere
Hottest global ocean temperatures
Hottest global land temperatures

That's according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) latest report and data. Their temperature records go back to 1880.

This year has been so much hotter than any of those other 135 years that we are now breaking all-time records by all-time unprecedented margins. To illustrate just how hot we've made our planet, here are four graphics made from NOAA's data.