gfm7175
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A 'global temperature' has NEVER been accurately measured (per Statistical Mathematics), not even today...That is incorrect. It was measured in the 1800s by thermometers.
In other words, cooked?? Statistical Mathematics requires RAW data, Crick...The limited data from the 1800s is augmented with various proxies.
Yes, it would... With at least 200 million of them uniformly spaced and simultaneously read by the same observer, we could at least BEGIN to conduct a semi-accurate statistical analysis of a global temperature.And it would be nice to have more thermometers
Satellites do NOT measure absolute temperature, Crick... They measure light. The light that they read cannot be converted into temperature because we do not know what the emissivity of Earth is, and in order to know the emissivity of Earth, we need to first know the temperature of Earth... a "chicken and egg" problem... Therefore, global temperature cannot be measured that way.but don't forget we have satellites that can measure temperatures of the atmosphere and the surface.