SunStar January 28, 2021 IT SEEMS the lockdowns in 2020 were not enough to slow the Earth's warming. The reduced greenhouse gas emissions hardly made a dent. The year 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) of the US National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA). Last year's globally averaged temperature was 1.02 Degrees Celsius warmer than the baseline 1951-1980 mean. NASA's analysis incorporates surface temperature measurements from more than 26,000 weather stations and thousands of ship- and buoy-based observations of sea surface temperatures. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) also said that the year 2020 was one of the three warmest on record and rivaled 2016 for the top spot. The WMO uses datasets developed and maintained by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA's GISS, and the United Kingdom's Met Office Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. The WMO also uses reanalysis datasets from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts and its Copernicus Climate Change Service, and the Japan Meteorological Agency.