NOAA and NASA jointly released their global climate summaries for 2019 today at the American Meteorological Society meeting I am attending in Boston this week. Both agencies agreed that 2019 was the second warmest year for the globe since records began in 1880, after 2016, although they used slightly different methods to get their estimates. The sea ice levels continue to decline in both the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans to their second lowest areal coverage amounts since those records began in 1979. You can read more here or see the statistics at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2019.