ACADEMIA
Temperature Record 101: How We Know What We Know about Climate Change
2021 was tied for the sixth warmest year on NASA’s record,
stretching more than a century.But, what is a temperature
record?GISTEMP, NASA’s global temperature analysis, takes in
millions of observations from instruments on weather stations,
ships and ocean buoys, and Antarctic research stations, to
determine how much warmer or cooler Earth is on average from year
to year.Stretching back to 1880...
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