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Satellite data
Satellite temperature data has the advantage of covering a much larger area of land and ocean and does not have to worry about urban heat islands.
If you look at the three decades of satellite data, such as the NSS data of the lower troposphere found here:
http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/public/msu/t2lt/tltglhmam_5.2 ...
you can see that July 2008 (at 0.048) is actually the 15th warmest July in the last 30 years.On NOAA says July 08 was fifth warmest on record posted 1 year, 3 months ago 15 Responses