UQx DENIAL101x 2.4.1.1v2 Building a robust temperature record
Channel: UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial
Date: 2015-05-05

In this lecture, Kevin Cowtan explains global temperature is measured how we know the thermometer record is accurate enough to detect human-caused warming. Subtitles available in ENGLISH and SLOVENIAN.

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