Picture this: The hottest August on record globally

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

Source:  NOAA Global Analysis August 2015

Those record-breaking months add up:

Near record to record warmth engulfed much of the global land and ocean surface throughout the first eight months of 2015, resulting in the highest January–August period on record at 0.84°C (1.51°F) above the 20th century average.  [emphasis added]

Other climate change posts: 
Globally, 2015 continues its record-breaking warm ways.  (8/24/2015)
Worldwide in April 2015, temperatures were above average.  (5/28/2015)
Record global heat continues.  (5/8/2015)
Is it any surprise that the education-bashing Scott Walker appears to be the favorite among Iowa climate change deniers.  (5/7/2015)
No Longer Mighty, the Rio Grande is Disappearing.  (4/15/2015) 
NOAA global temperature analysis: 2 months into 2015, we're experiencing the 2nd warmest year on record.  (3/18/2015)
It's a big (and warming) world out there: January 2015 is 2nd warmest since 1880.  (2/20/2015) 
Republicans need to generate a new climate change meme.  (1/21/2015)

2014 is the warmest year.  (1/18/2015)
As the world warms: NOAA global analysis for October 2014.  (11/26/2014)

The Global Window: Worldwide it was a record warm September.  (10/27/2014)

‘I’m Not A Scientist’: A Complete Guide To Politicians Who Plead Ignorance On Climate Change.  (Think Progress, 10/3/2014)

35,000 walruses with nowhere to go tell us that climate change is real.  (10/7/2014) 

In the news:  Argo floats.  (8/13/2014)

Climate change/ocean acidification: Washington's conservative legislators fiddle while the state's baby oysters die by the billions.  (8/4/2014)

Climate change: Somebody can't see the forest for the trees.  (7/29/2014) 

Worldwide it was a very warm June.  (7/23/2014)

Extreme weather, climate change: The Pacific Northwest edition.  (7/22/2014)

This isn't what Gene McDaniels had in mind (Unh, unh, unh, unh, unh, unh).  (5/21/2014)

In this case, you'll find the Crazy, a hidebound ideologue, in room 205 of the Russell Senate Office Building.  (5/14/2014)

Sunny-day flooding in Miami Beach: The everyday reality and the political denial.  (5/9/2014)

The rising sea levels of Bangladesh.  (3/30/2014)

Cold enough for you?  (3/9/2014)

Meteors, glaciers, and climate change.  (1/14/2014)

Climate change spurs northward growth of mangroves.  (1/1/2014)

Dear Skeptics, Climate change is already driving informed business decisions.  (12/15/2013)

Florida's vulnerable coastline.  (11/12/2013)

Promoting the need for regionalism among nations along the Bay of Bengal coast.  (10/14/2013)

Climate change not taking a back seat everywhere in Wisconsin.  (9/27/2013)

Climate change deniers continue to jump on the Daily Mail crazy train (or Oops! they did it again).  (9/25/2013) 
Cal Thomas: This climate change bulletin just in from the Daily Mail.  (9/24/2013) 
Cal Thomas needs a research assistant.  (9/23/2013)

Climate change, as a matter of fact.  (8/31/2013)

Outagamie County residents will be better served with a more proactive approach.  (8/20/2013)

Here's what got Ron Johnson's undies in a bundle (NoRoJo in 2016, chapter 12).  (8/15/2013)

Georgia's anti-science climate denier caucus.  (7/31/2013)

Here's a comforting headline.  (3/8/2013)

Making Fox News-Inspired Jokes About Climate Change? Consider Australia.  (3/5/2013)

The New Normal: Living With Extreme Weather (Northeastern U.S. Edition).  (2/10/2013)

1975: "There's a new ice age coming, but I wouldn't want to predict when.".  (1/27/2013)

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Embargoes Use of Phrase "Climate Change"?  (12/31/2012)

Can you say 'climate change'?  (11/28/2012)

As you already know, Fox News is shameless.  (9/29/2012)

Dear George, It will take more than denial to get over climate change in Greenland.  (9/27/2012)

Climate change results in Coast Guard's "unprecedented" deployment to North Shore of Alaska.  (7/23/2013)

Weather history is made in the Northeast.  (10/30/2011)

Climate change in the American mind.  (6/8/2011)

Stuff you won't see on Fox News.  (1/8/2010)