Oddbean

I don't think you understand how that data is gathered. There is so much error and interpretive bias, not only in the simple generation of the numbers, but then assigning them to time, And then comparing with current measurements. There are vast areas of the earth where temperature has never been measured with any reliability and therefore your global trends would be made completely insignificant if there was data from those that varied or differed at all in relation to the current measurements.

Annas-archive.org I always recommend reading actual papers, even to non-experts in any given field. Find the DOI or article name referenced in a regime media puff piece and see what the authors ACTUALLY said, and what their reasons were. Regime media is centrally coordinated and lies with admirable discipline, but industry and academic journals are (for now) allowed quite a bit of latitude. Yes, remote sensing data from satellites IS used to inform climate models, and has been for longer than I've been alive. That doesn't mean any particular climate model is inerrantly correct (none are, they're models), it doesn't mean ice caps will finish melting by any predictable date, and it certainly shouldn't be taken to mean the government has the ability or the inclination to intervene usefully. But the preponderance of evidence, including satellite remote sensing, shows a warming trend. We are going to have to live with that.