February Hit Satellite Temperatures Out of the Ballpark!

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The sum of a strong El Nino and the effect of man's greenhouse gas emissions drove February 2016 global land and sea Troposphere temperatures to a 37-year record.

Remote Sensing Systems reports a February land and sea monthly reading from the lower Troposphere of 0.974K, significantly higher than any other reading on the 37-year and 2-month long data set. The extreme upper right of the graph below represents the February record.

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These data are at:
http://data.remss.com/msu/monthly_time_series/RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Chann...

An explanation of how satellites take our planet's temperature is at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_temperature_measurements


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