But saying “next year is going to be the warmest year in history” implies that you are viewing history from some hypothesized future time when at least some parts of what is now the future have been converted into history. It’s ambiguous as to how far in the future that viewpoint is.
But saying “next year is going to be the warmest year in history” implies that you are viewing history from some hypothesized future time when at least some parts of what is now the future have been converted into history. It’s ambiguous as to how far in the future that viewpoint is.