This week’s Beyond the Data blog from NOAA provides some insight into how the annual report on the State of the Climate gets put together. Over 400 experts on climate around the world work together to ensure that it is a complete and accurate description of the past year’s climate, which results in a report of about 270 pages. I provide the link to this year’s report and highlights in an earlier blog posting when the report was first released, but here it is again: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/2014-state-climate-highlights.
