The bias problem with climate satellites

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Earlier this year I had the opportunity to visit the European Space Agency's climate office, and speak to scientists about their work monitoring the Earth from above. In this video I discuss how they handle biases around climate satellites, what an essential climate variable is, and why there was controversy around ground temperature this summer.

* if such warming exists and can be validated through an independent ground-based measurement

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