Government science groups say that 2022 did not quite set a record for heat. But it was in the top five or six warmest years on record. The exact placement depends on who was doing the measuring. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) measured 2022’s worldwide average temperature as 14.76 degrees Celsius. That ranks as the sixth-hottest year on record. Four other scientific agencies or science groups around the world put the year as either fifth or sixth hottest. NOAA and NASA records go back to 1880. Bill Nelson is the NASA Administrator. He said the worldwide temperature is alarming. “What we’re seeing is our warming climate, it’s warning all of us... Extreme weather patterns threaten our well-being across this planet. Berkeley Earth is a nonprofit group of independent scientists. It said 2022 was the fifth-warmest year on record around the world. It noted that for 28 countries it was the hottest year on record.