Satellites Show Earth Has a Fever
Date: Friday, April 23 @ 21:44:32 PDT
Topic: Enviromental Headlines; Climate Change
A recent study from NASA says that satellites are acting as thermometers in space. Contrary to meteorological ground stations which measure the air temperature around two meters above the ground, satellites can accurately measure the temperature of the Earth's skin. And this new study, which covers the 18-year period going from 1981 to 1998, shows that the Earth's temperature is rising 0.43°C per decade instead of the O.34°C found by previous methods.
NASA | Slashdot
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