World The past seven years have been Earth’s hottest on record and there’s no signs of ‘slowing down’ January 11, 2022January 12, 2022 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Comments Off on The past seven years have been Earth’s hottest on record and there’s no signs of ‘slowing down’ Despite the global COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane continued to increase in 2021.