Not the highest temperature EVER, just the highest since we have recorded measurements, which is about 100 years of a 4.5 billion year old planet! Beat the previous record by one degree, the previous record was 100 years ago.  In the last 100 years, we beat the record by one degree.  Not very alarming to me.  Well within the standard deviation expected.  Not enough to terrify me into thinking its the end of the world.  Not Alarming.  Its been warming for 30,000 years, 30,000 years ago Southeast Alaska was completely covered with glaciers.