Last 7 years hottest ever

 From NOAA

Source: NOAA

Cooler than it was in 2020, because it was a La Niña year.  A fair bit cooler than 2016, an El Niño year, when the Pacific gives up some of the heat it has absorbed during the La Niña.  Still, the last 7 years have been the warmest measured by thermometer in the last nearly 150 years, and, using numerous proxy measurements, the hottest in the last 2000.  Temperatures will drop over the next couple of years because of the massive eruption of the volcano in Tonga.  No doubt, denialists will have a field day, pointing out that temperatures have fallen since 2016.   After all, after the last big El Niño in 2008, they dined out for years on the fact that temperatures had "stopped rising", ignoring the ENSO  (El Niño- Southern Oscillation) cycles.