Sadly, NASA and NOAA don't have much credibility on these sort of hysterical reports, because they have a dishonest habit of manipulating prior temperature measurements downwards (most notably the 30s dust bowl years), making more recent temps appear higher by comparison. They also don't properly account for urban heat traps that have grown around many land based measuring stations.
The satellite data (which only goes back to 79) shows no discernible increase in temp in 18 years.