To be a pedant, the ten hottest years on record have all been within the past decade but each of the past ten years hasn’t been the hottest on record. E.g. 2021 was (slightly) cooler than 2020 and so wasn’t a record year (but was still hotter than any year pre-2014).
![Climate-denying conservatives after every year for the last decade has been in the hottest 10 on record [Day 105]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a36781d4-dcea-40a1-9611-65b113cd87e6.png){kind=link}
To be a pedant, the ten hottest years on record have all been within the past decade but each of the past ten years hasn’t been the hottest on record. E.g. 2021 was (slightly) cooler than 2020 and so wasn’t a record year (but was still hotter than any year pre-2014).
As a fellow pedant, I forgot that; corrected.