In 1937 the average temperature of the Earth's surface was 0.03 °C below the 1951–1980 average, the highest since reliable global records began in 1880. Each new record shows how much the planet has warmed since the industrial era, mainly because of greenhouse gases released by burning coal, oil and gas. It took place in 1937.
Before and after
- 1937Guernica
- 1937Nanjing Massacre
- 1937Publication of Of Mice and Men
- 1937Jahn–Teller effect
- 19371937 becomes the warmest year on record
- 20 January 1937Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 21 February 1937Birth of Harald V of Norway
- 2 March 1937Birth of Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa
- 6 March 1937Birth of Valentina Tereshkova
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