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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."
And the prescription is MORE COWBELL!
Wait, this isn't Fark... Never mind.
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
Bah, If every cooling and warming period for the past 10 million years was never caused by any action of man, but all of a sudden now that we have SUV's we are causing the earth's tempurature to change?
.43 of a degree is going to spell our certian doom.
I mean what was the cause of the tempurature to rise during the time of christ?
In midevel times the tempurature of the Earth was a average of over 1.5 degrees warmer then it is now. But a change of
In the 1800's we had reached a end of a gigantic thousand year cooling trend, but now since we burn coal that is the fault of Global Warming instead of the fact that the sun has increased in activity dramaticly since the early 70's.
Oh, ya. The sun increasing sunspot activity dramiticly and increasing the radation output overall has absolutely nothing to do with the climate of earth, but cow farts are something we need to worry about because they could melt the Ice caps.
I also suppose that by using the evidence gathered about the last 20 years of tempurature change, while we remain wholy ignorant of the cause of climate change over the last 2000000 years means that we should be scared shitless and enact dramatic legislation that will do massive ammounts of economic and social problems while doing abosultely nothing to solve any real issues.