Can We Trust Satellite Temperatures?

In case anyone was wondering where I’ve been, this has been in the oven for the last few days.

In coming days, we will hear announcements from NASA, NOAA and others that
2015 was the hottest year in the modern instrumental record.
There will be pushback from the likes of climate denier Ted Cruz, who
uses a misreading of satellite temperature data to claim, as he did
on Seth Meyer’s show – “no warming in 18  years”

This is the story of how that distortion came to be.

Now is the time to support the 2016 Dark Snow Field campaign. More about that here.