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Satellites Show That Earth Has a Fever
Roland Piquepaille writes "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 0.43C per decade instead of the O.34C found by previous methods. Unfortunately for us, if satellites can more precisely measure this rise of the Earth's temperature, they cannot cure this fever. This overview contains more details and a spectacular image showing the European heat wave of the summer of 2003."
Oh... My... God!!!
The Earth's temperature has risen by 43.0C over the past decade!!! We're all gonna die!
I am MuchTall
Brilliant!. I bet not one of those meterologists and climatologist thought of that one.
evil is as evil does
there is already damage resulting of it
look at the big glaciers
look at permafrost zones
look at the recent natural disaster
look at the insurance companys and what they are predicting
do you think el niño or do you think it's appearance is just happenstance
we can perdict quite good what will happen when the temperatur is rising
we even know it is rising
the only thing to arrgue about is if it is caused by our own doing or if it is just a natural fluctuation in earth's climate
i think it is better to be save then sorry
or are you really the one who is going to tell the millions of people dieing, they are dieing to protect your right to drive a huge SUV????
stop supporting microsoft with pirating their software!!!!!