The trend continues. August 2015 was the hottest August on record. It seems 2015 will be recorded as the hottest year on record. 2016 might even be warmer.

From JMA

The monthly anomaly of the global average surface temperature in August 2015 (i.e. the average of the near-surface air temperature over land and the SST) was +0.45°C above the 1981-2010 average (+0.79°C above the 20th century average), and was the warmest since 1891. On a longer time scale, global average surface temperatures have risen at a rate of about 0.65°C per century.


Five Warmest Years (Anomalies)
1st. 2015 (+0.45°C), 2nd. 2014 (+0.33°C), 3rd. 1998 (+0.28°C), 4th. 2013, 2012, 2009 (+0.23°C)

Some deniers like repeating the models are/were wrong. Not true. James Hansen was trying to warn us a long time ago.

Climate Theory Ca. 1981 Vs. Climate Reality Now

Global temperature variations compared with a paper published by climate scientist James Hansen and collaborators in 1981. The Hansen model used computer simulations that were crude by today's standards but, as this figure shows, did a pretty good job of predicting the increase in global temperatures over the next 34 years. Note that the Hansen et al predictions actually underestimate the amount of global warming. From the abstract of the paper: "It is shown that the anthropogenic carbon dioxide warming should emerge from the noise level of natural climate variability by the end of the century, and there is a high probability of warming in the 1980s."